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The word 'alfred'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alfredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7125
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 98.4 9 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 alfred in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ur dat wis da language o King Alfred an he commissioned a lok o tr on page 14

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
isht bi the Swedish inventor, Alfred Nobel, is owerseen in Norway. on page 15

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
back an fore wi his pal Lord Alfred o Ayr. He surveyed the landsc on page 88
"Logic?" whuspered Lord Alfred o Ayr. on page 89
gien a sleekit smirk at Lord Alfred. "There's nae a puzzle has be on page 90
"Oooooh!" moaned Lord Alfred o Ayr, wi a look that's aften on page 91

8 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Alfred Noyes' 'Highwayman' clippety- on page 133

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
rty-Nine Steps', the original Alfred Hitchcock film, becomes an ob on page 87

1 matches

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