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Use in varieties of Scots

earnest Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 5.3 3.2 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1310 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors10 7 2 1

Occurrences of earnest in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
evous need. He prayed lang an earnest till, dowie an sair forfochen on page 29
i - baur the Lord himsel, in earnest prayer, seekin solace an deli on page 31
gs the gist o the meenister's earnest prayers, an hauf his plous mi on page 35
ack, an heid bowed, he prayed earnest an lang, wi great devotion, i on page 46

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
es tae kirk, guild an gairden earnest wark, on page 9

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Daein it yersel, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
it wis time dae the thing in earnest afore whit wis left o it drai
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ais, dain his best tae appear earnest.
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
him. Life is real and life is earnest.
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Facebook link ( 2019) Central
se them an the hunt wis up in earnest.

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Jist mak ae earnest plea an prayer.
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
tairtit te bubble an greet in earnest. on page 77

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ti the meen. An he said, affa earnest like, 'Na na na, they'll nivv on page 74

1 matches

Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
, an him aye spaekin tae her, earnest laek. Weel some athletes seem
1 matches

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