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The word 'demands'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
demandsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32116
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.5 6 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 3
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of demands in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
some mait tae me?" He asks an demands
sie's hame help appeared. She demands." Jonsar jist stop
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
st jumps up fae the flair and demands tae ken: "Who fuckin said tha on page 42
he said. "He shouts at me and demands answers I don't have." The br on page 55

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ony haurder than the langage demands.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ent last week, ane o the heid demands wis juist that the Executive
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
aid ‘’He shouts at me and demands answers I don’t have’’.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
in register when the occasion demands it. As Liz Lochhead says, "Li
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Demands which the Tories said went to on page 64

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
the Provost thocht. "Sae Weir demands ah send on page 112

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
k. Sae gin ye hae ony special demands for yer walfare an comfort, y
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ook inside the box?’’ she demands.
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Him that demands twa maiks aff yer een, a bawb on page 75

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Donna no so much suggests, as demands.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ae Embro an lat their peacefu demands afore the King's Privy Counci on page 26

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
are tae hear, aw the fashious demands for siller, the scauls an the on page 133

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Thi Leerie, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
or thi demands o ill-lippet koonsuls, on page 93

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
, and richt idiomatic yaisage demands a deep and nearhaun intuitive
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
mak Scotland cow tow tae his demands. It hud been goin on fur year

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
y Row with their unquenchable demands. #ChimpScum(2019)