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Use in varieties of Scots

starvation Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.6 2.7 1.6 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences85 1 1 1 0 0
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of starvation in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
r fowk teeterin on the edge o starvation, diseases that are a direck r on page 53

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
r kind o plague awthegither ~ starvation. on page 96

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Murder an rape, an war an starvation, on page 36

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
haur they deed o ill-usage an starvation. They're buirit there still, on page 35

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
East, flids in the Faur East, starvation in Africae, politeecians clai on page 19

1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
cause o death as a mixture o starvation and very low temperatures. Ma
1 matches

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Free o bombs, tyranny, starvation on page 93

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
erweed helped folk to survive starvation durin a dark time in Scottish(2014) search twitter