Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

alky	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.9	6.4	0	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	13	13	0	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	5	5

Occurrences of alky in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
each the night. We see an eld alky stoatin doon the lane in bogg on page 12
r, yir fucked. Should the eld alky steal the fiver and the six b on page 13
re is fuckin Vietnam. The eld alky doesnae know wit tae say. 'Yo on page 14

5 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
or an alky lyin deid oan the sofie on page 36

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
oot efter seven years ay yir alky pish. That yir bandmates ur s on page 3

4 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
an his wife Moira. He wis an alky an she wis an idiot, said ma on page 61
pish. Fur a start his ma's an alky an his brother used tae be a on page 169

2 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e personalities, her being an alky doesnae help of course and he
1 matches