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The word 'alfie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alfieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.1364
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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) 1083.5 33 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of alfie in Corpus

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Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
cRatter Yes! I’ve also heard Alfie say “dey’d geen tae da limp(2018)

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
aye day a wels cummen awa fae Alfie's John's stoar, up fae thi Li on page 67

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
a,' she says, 'but Ah'll tell Alfie (that wis me) ti hae a look f on page 76

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
nae closed the curtains afore Alfie had left tae caal on a sick p on page 30
im. She was mair at ease noo. Alfie wud be hame suin, an she wud on page 31
Nor did Alfie, who was aye catcht atween cu on page 32
inatin? Was this the hysteria Alfie's doctor freen had prescribed on page 34
Alfie was pacin bak an forth in the on page 35
Also on pages 36, 38, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57
33 matches

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