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The word 'almaist'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
almaistOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6219
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 2 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of almaist in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
ht. She’d mix it up though, almaist as if she wis tryin tae keep
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
Declan’s injury wis almaist as gory as that Arnie filum,
‘Aw no,’ he said, almaist a whisper. He wrenched his ha
2 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
it noo. Declan’s injury wis almaist as gory as that Arnie filum,
‘Aw no,’ he says, almaist a whisper. He pulls his haun
2 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
t of musik and singing … is almaist decayit and sall schortly dec
t of musik and singing … is almaist decayit and sall schortly dec
2 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
as he runs his hands ower ma, almaist reaching doon tae ma erse, bu
Ah’m almaist tempted to let him finish him
2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
came fae nought, and she wis almaist as bad as posh Granny when it on page 17
Dante's almaist certainly gonnae knock ma con on page 23
oments before the bell rings. Almaist certainly tae spare any bruis on page 25

3 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
mforted me by tellin me she'd almaist decked it dancin. We wur even on page 59
, wine merchants and grocers. Almaist aw o the buildings wur sandst on page 75
Ah laugh so hard ah almaist wet masel. Ah stand, and ah'm on page 80

3 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
again ane o them wad blaw up, almaist as if the conter thing had be on page 18

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Logan but the ideas a bittie almaist nae quite ...(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Bi her way o it she was almaist faimly, on page 49

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
bottle markt "poison", it is almaist certain tae disagree wi yae, on page 13
y gien the impression o baein almaist oot o sicht, they wur gittin on page 16

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
fur almaist five months. It was a relief on page 55

1 matches

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