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The word 'compliments'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
complimentsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
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 compliments in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e. An firget aboot dishin oot compliments - ye're rubbish it aat...jis on page 57
: '...firget aboot dishin oot compliments...look interestit...jist agre on page 58

2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ylishly messy warm broon hair compliments the fashionable light navy su on page 48
wis walkin oan water wae his compliments, He hit aw the markers, likes on page 198

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
hopes to fin you, and wi mony compliments to ye aw in the Heelands, I r
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
brother - a dinnae get much compliments lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ly guid meal he aye sends his compliments tae the chef. Ye didnae ken t on page 117

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
it, yir jist pure fishin fur compliments. Well whit aboot yir light bl on page 23

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ge screen telly dominates and compliments the modern furniture straight
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
residence at @at_ulster Braw compliments an skeckin fir slaters forby (2020)