A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ailsa'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ailsaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.8323
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 76.1 30 1
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) 13.9 1 1
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 ailsa in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
Ever since she wis wee, Ailsa had an awfa habit ae sleep-wa
asleep in the hauf-light, but Ailsa wis different. She’d dae it
gh the fuzz ae her fugue, and Ailsa wid shuffle back tae her room
ed, fur the familiar sound ae Ailsa’s door closin ower. Sometim
losin ower. Sometimes though, Ailsa wid crawl intae her parents b
30 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Ailsa Brown gies birth on page 82

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
lik thon day Ailsa Craig an on page 63

1 matches

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