A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

complaining Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 3 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences41 2 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 1 2 1

Occurrences of complaining in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
awthegither… "What are you complaining about now, son?" became "Ye'v
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
t a poem to his mother-in-law complaining that her letters were few and on page 15

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ir team’s winning naebody is complaining aboot VAR. if yir team is str (2022) twitter link

Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
nable niggling little people, complaining non-stop in a peevish manner on page 33

1 matches

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