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The word 'moaning'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
moaningOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.796
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 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of moaning in Corpus

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General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
_ @stooiewalker exactly. They moaning iday aboot nae bein able to c(2013)
oiewalker i remember mourinho moaning aboot west ham parking the bu(2014)
sy26 aye i saw a heap o dames moaning aboot at last day(2013)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
the wife tae this she will be moaning fer the next twa wicks about (2017)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
A great moaning did he hear on page 6

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
l2505 Aye, and I’ve tae stop moaning ??(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n97 m8 eer tuff as fuck n nae moaning - b oan brother (2021) twitter link
u r - instead of mumping and moaning n sitting on the fence - tha (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
'Get to school and stop moaning. on page 9

1 matches

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