The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers |
|---|---|---|
| Air | 4 | 1517 (continuatioun); 1535 (bailliery); 1557 (burrow); 1576 (burrow) |
| Are | 4 | 1441 (barounry); 1488 (alderman); 1509 (bailȝery); 1516 (bailliery) |
| Aire | 3 | 1496 (burges man, burrowis); 1529 (bailȝery) |
| Ayre | 2 | 1491 (continue); 1545 (baillerie) |
| Ayir | 1 | 1542 (crag) |
| Ayr | 1 | 1565 (cabok) |