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The word 'alky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alkyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3146
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 45.5 10 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 alky in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e personalities, her being an alky doesnae help of course and he
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
an his wife Moira. He wis an alky an she wis an idiot, said ma on page 61
pish. Fur a start his ma's an alky an his brother used tae be a on page 169

2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
each the night. We see an eld alky stoatin doon the lane in bogg on page 12
r, yir fucked. Should the eld alky steal the fiver and the six b on page 13
re is fuckin Vietnam. The eld alky doesnae know wit tae say. 'Yo on page 14

5 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
or an alky lyin deid oan the sofie on page 36

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
oot efter seven years ay yir alky pish. That yir bandmates ur s on page 3

4 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
quicker than an alky gettin their first drink in m on page xv

1 matches

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