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The word 'excitit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
excititOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.83213
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 2
LAL - General Central 26.5 20 6
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 excitit in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e comin ess wiken. Ye shid bi excitit. It'll bi fun - promise!" | on page 26
"Ye excitit?" fuspered Gertie, sidlin up on page 39
s Reed's deed!" He soundit aa excitit an he wis pechin like he'd bi on page 66
," said Roy, stairtin te feel excitit an a bittie nervous it the th on page 87

4 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
oo!" said Donald, leukin fair excitit jist thinkin aboot it. "It's on page 52

1 matches

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
parcel. "Yer sister's really excitit te meet ye" Mam hauds oot a p on page 97

1 matches

(South) East Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Consulate and he wis aw excitit when he tellt me “We haff r
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ither bairns but she wis that excitit she couldnae help hersel. on page 69

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Weill, dinna get ower excitit,” sayed the engineer. “It
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
breist an the bairn’s neb, excitit as a loon bird-nesting. Marga
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
the distance, an she hukt up excitit, hauf-hopin that the Mous had on page 31

1 matches

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
He felt somewhat excitit;
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
, and he became as eident and excitit as a young laddie. on page 12
tchin, like aw the ithers, wi excitit veesitors when oor reporter a on page 39
!' splootered the auld man aw excitit. 'Dinnae staund there arguin! on page 42
dear bairns! Dinnae get ower-excitit! Stey calm! Keep the heid!' on page 73
airlie!' said Granda Jock, aw excitit. on page 77
Also on pages 100, 146, 148, 163
9 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
, the three orphans were that excitit tae be oot o Coont Olaf's hoo on page 40
looked at each ither. "Are ye excitit aboot the play?" Violet asked on page 85
nicht readin," Klaus said, aw excitit, as his sister opened her een on page 100
Naw, it's no," Klaus said, aw excitit, "I mind masel, noo, cause I on page 151

4 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
juist twa or three doors. Sae excitit, we wad gae oot, chap the fir
1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
es an aw?’ speired Kat, gey excitit.
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
e ye Michael! Ye must be awfy excitit!(2018)

@LairnScots tweeted
has made us at SLC even mair excitit aboot the newly-published #Sc (2020) twitter link
Fair excitit tae be at 'A Scots Gaitherin' (2019) twitter link
Awa tae this the day! Fair excitit tae find oot aw that Glesga U (2019) twitter link
Excitit tae hear aboot links atween S (2019) twitter link

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