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The word 'alasdair'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alasdairOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.81913
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 7
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 alasdair in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
the 2021 St Magnus Festival. Alasdair Nicolson, Festival Director, on page 34

2 matches

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
d were by William or Lewis or Alasdair.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
The heidmaist speaker will be Alasdair Allan MSP wi special guest sp
1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
lpine and the multilingual Dr Alasdair Allan, to re-establish the cr
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
Scots Should Rule Scotland - Alasdair Gray
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
akin the piss oot her fur it. Alasdair Kelman. Here. Laura Kyle. Lau on page 46

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
A WHILIE BACK Alasdair Gray got a richt sair lug fae on page 73
Nou, Alasdair's airticle arose fae the fack on page 74

3 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s hae scrieved anent includin Alasdair Cameron, Adrienne Scullion, B on page 37

1 matches

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
Alasdair Allan on page 1

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
mation, its survivin members (Alasdair Allan, Andy Eagle, John Law, on page 4

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
oor ain case. An this is whit Alasdair Allan (1998) is ettlin at wha on page 56

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
e Gaelic Broadcastin Inquiry, Alasdair Morrison MSP jaloused
Gaelic Braidcastin Inquiry by Alasdair Morrison,
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Review: O is for Hoolet, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
r Jean Redpath, Rabbie Burns, Alasdair Allan, hersel as a teenager,
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
thugcat Awa an bile yer heid, Alasdair. I ken her an her man an they(2020)

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