A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'compleent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
compleentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.484
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 compleent in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
o fit it meent te hae a hairt compleent. An, in a wye, Ah envied ye a on page 22

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Weel... ," compleent Jack, "it's enuch te mak a bo on page 7
t wis feart o sheep?" ma maan compleent. "He canna bide here iv he's on page 17
ocial life wi'oot tellin ma," compleent Ronnie. on page 35

3 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
A didna wint tae mak a formal compleent, gin he cud only stap her tar
or forhooiein her an makkin a compleent tae the police aboot her, whi
2 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
her for disturbin him. If she compleent tae George aboot the mon's st on page 1

1 matches

General Central

Swan, Michael Lallans 102 - Mebbi Ah Spak Owre Suin, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
e're nae saitisfeed, pit in a compleent tae the blissit admeenistrati on page 96

1 matches

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