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The word 'alain'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alainOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 alain in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
fan they are cohabitatin, let alain fan there is anely ae earner
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n that ah've never felt maire alain in ma life than ah do right n on page 53
ire her beauty. Her long legs alain seem as if they could easily on page 79
um snapped. "Leave the laddie alain." on page 186

3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
he collogue. Amang thaim wis, Alain Esclopé an Bruno Gollnisch (
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
golden chance tae spend some alain time wae the wee man and hope
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e comfort tae be foond sittin alain in the pitch black. Opportuni
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
The verra notion wir alain in the on page 24

1 matches

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