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The word 'nuisance'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nuisanceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.7 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 nuisance in Corpus

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Orkney

Lamb, Gregor Lamb’s Tales, (The Orkney Dictionary 2005) Orkney, prose
we hid been makkan a terrible nuisance o wirsaels in the back drivan
1 matches

Shetland

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
o life. Weel hit wis a damned nuisance; still we could nae better dÃ
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
hetlandCat Yis, whit a bloddy nuisance!(2021)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
@aboutaberdeen1 A bloody nuisance that's fit it is, squawking a(2017)
nae thanks lass, in fact yon nuisance seagulls flapping about the b(2018)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
n the stairs and retrieve the nuisance. There wid be a lecture for R
1 matches

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
g the boy who has been such a nuisance tae oor test run. For when yo
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
unin drinking, makin a bloody nuisance ay themselves. There wis a by
1 matches

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