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The word 'alistair'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alistairOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12711
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 30.9 12 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 3
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 alistair in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
o/Loqc2KzeyI (with thanks tae Alistair).(2018)

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
Peer Alistair Jack bumbling through an inte(2020)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
, a native o Strathnaver, tae Alistair Heather.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
"Eh, Alistair Crosbie, gin ma memory sers m on page 26

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
Scottish Football Poems, ed. Alistair Findlay, Luath Press, Edinbur on page 123
ace. It's guid forbye tae see Alistair Mackie's Don't Cry For Argent on page 124

4 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
hosted by Frieda Morrison and Alistair Heather—twa guid Scots leid
1 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
s leid activist an jurnalist, Alistair Heather.
en tak tent o them. Eh thocht Alistair's video wis gey braa - an bra
ionar cruisaders. Houiver, as Alistair's clip rose in views (raxin u
bserves agreed wi ilk ithers: Alistair's braid Scots wisna a proper
Forbye, as we've jyst seen wi Alistair's video clip, the main quirk
6 matches

West Central

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Alistair Davidson is a political activ
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ll ken weel: Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, wha clearly at this on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001 on page 4

7 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
y of Scotland Before History, Alistair Moffat, Thames and Hudson, Lo on page 110

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Story of the Border Reivers, Alistair Moffat, Birlinn Ltd., Edinbur on page 126

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
haed the puppet o newsreader Alistair Burnett speakin anent the pla
1 matches

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