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The word 'alexandra'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alexandraOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of alexandra in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
dn't you? Everybody does. I'm Alexandra, Sarah's daughter." on page 23
hakkin, ta da sittin room, an Alexandra set a parcel ipo da table. on page 24
st joy is that I didn't abort Alexandra, but this illness has made me on page 25
hü said ta herself ~ noo fur Alexandra. Da phone rang fur ages, an s on page 26

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
gotten Association. The Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps As(2018)

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
aste yer money oan that stuff Alexandra. Yer vet will take care o tha(2020)