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The word 'grumble'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grumbleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 grumble in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
He didna really grumble bit I kent he wid be glaid on page 24

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
eptics winna hae onything tae grumble aboot. But still, roads jist
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Nae mair tae grumble aboot his lot. on page 19

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@janiesherb Hey, I dinnae grumble, I just get on with it ????(2020)
@LeensterFbsi I dinnae grumble ??(2020)

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
joint gits handed over wae a grumble. It's a heavy bad twoz. on page 9

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ant price waeoot as much as a grumble. No dain too bad fur the auld
1 matches

General Central

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
sandwich and a coffee. Cannae grumble! (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
. I felt ma stomach start tae grumble as though wi’ hunger, and t
1 matches

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