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The word 'complaints'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
complaintsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71513
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of complaints in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Winter Complaints on page 75

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Any other complaints?" The docter steed up. "Anyth on page 8

1 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
h can, ignorin ma teacher’s complaints. Ah dinnae want onywan else t
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
complaints from fans noo about folk gett (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
rt them. Charlene wis full ae complaints: her hauns wur gettin aw blac on page 143

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
we nae complaints, on page 52
nae complaints, it wizzna sair on page 72

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
she wid stop an’ vent her complaints tae him. His jaw dropped as s
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
! Callum, efter hearin’ the complaints frae the Duty Officer, pulled
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Bill spread his hauns. “Nae complaints,” he sayed.
1 matches

General Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
'Ye'll hae nae complaints aboot the wark?' on page 72

1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
Comments an complaints
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ish’, tae gie a wheen o the complaints. A wheen Scots felt that inst
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
obviously tain the huff ower complaints fae real Scots are aboot tae (2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
5.16.3 Speir intae complaints quhar a public authority dusn on page 59

1 matches

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