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Use in varieties of Scots

strive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.6 0 9.9 0 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences95 0 1 0 2 1
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of strive in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
The Scots leid maun strive oan in spite, on page 104

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
n tae dae, naethin tae mak ye strive. Yer muckle great brain wis g on page 223

1 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
century, means that preceese strive fir tae creaut a muckle natio
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
r desires, you struggle an’ strive.
1 matches

@ClashCityClarky tweeted
hanterRanter @billykayscot A 'strive' doon in Hawick.(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Tae strive tae be the best I can - on page 27

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The perfect body some wud but strive on page 11
Oh what is man if no tae strive on page 50

2 matches

Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
minded "like men" all should "strive tae keep ill-feelin' doon" in(2020) search twitter