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The word 'struggles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
strugglesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
ORK - Orkney
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 58.1 1 1
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 struggles in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
I ken he's nae (sayin at. He struggles ti run a bath neer mind onyhi(2019)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Hale day lang it struggles tae bide dry.
Struggles affa hard tae bide fair,
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
. The maire ah've watched his struggles, the maire ah've come tae rea on page 23

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
he struggles tae ootdae first that yin syn on page 108

1 matches

General Central

White, George When you're an auld man, (Facebook 2024) Central, poetry
Thair struggles micht mak mines na worth a me
1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
oss most media. Lyndsay Hoyle struggles with the UK having a proven l (2022) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
al men free - Naturally. His struggles led tae you an me - Politica on page 59

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
The struggles leevin leas ain ye, on page 50

1 matches

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