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The word 'alood'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aloodOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42710
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 22.7 17 5
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 alood in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Anja Poosack, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
and say "That's no alood!"
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
‘Dere!’ he said alood. ‘Dat sood dö hit!’
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
s wa's an smirk whan A scrift alood the sonnets o the dazent on page 3

2 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - The Man Wha Jeopardeized The Continued Existence O The Universe, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
feart that wurds spoken alood micht skaith the lythe quaten
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
w world, indeed,” she sayed alood, “that has such people in i
eel, they can read thair wark alood tae
spickin alood like a wee thing. Ay, he cont
3 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
here, so ah dae!" said Alice alood, talkin tae naebdy in particu on page 31
tae git in?" she said again, alood. on page 57

2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
The mither cried alood, 'I'll dae it! on page 19

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
there wis nae need tae say it alood. on page 51

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
5. SAY IT OOT ALOOD. Whan ye'v wrutten or edit so on page 5
is best checkit throu speakin alood. If a word or sentence jist d on page 13
nds gey different whan spoken alood is 'wash' an 'want'. In Scots on page 18
r Scots sentence or sentences alood. Daes it soond like something on page 33
throu its screivar speakin it alood efterward. If something daesn on page 41
Also on pages 42, 49, 58
12 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
havers alood in broken canadian on page 49

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ythit – they simply read it alood as gin it was Scots, an while
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
wk can whyles tak yer thinkin alood as a personal creiticism, or
1 matches

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