Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'starvin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

starvin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5	16	13
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B	131	1	1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.6	2	1
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	62.8	2	2
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)	32.8	1	1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)	18.2	1	1

Occurrences of starvin in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

Johnston, Shaun The Forkie Gollach, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
for a poke o chips. We were a starvin ’. Fir a laugh we thocht to
1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
eenFCNews aye #Angus, a'm gie starvin' ken. How div I tak ma steak?(2015)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ree years runnin. Ah wis pure starvin cause ah hadnae had any break on page 87
Charlene must be starvin the day. It's nearly home tim on page 145
lene wants us tae think she's starvin hersel so that we'll gie her on page 147

3 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
e wet, cauld, exhausted an’ starvin ’ troops!
starvin ' men on' blistered feet,
2 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
g tae kill me ye ken? Say yer starvin me tae death. They say yer a on page 41

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ste food while there are poor starvin children in the world. on page 4

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
ie Hughes and all week ah wis starvin for ah only hud an apple or a
1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
or food chain. No content wae starvin us noo they want tae poison u(2021)

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
somehin tae eat soon? Wur aw starvin ."
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
guid, that it made Alice gye starvin wi hunger tae luk at thim-"A on page 108

1 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Tha demise o oor ain tongue, (North Antrim Speak 2010) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
o hollow support whun they ir starvin Ullans tae daith. Aff coorse
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
rls on the bench. "The wean's starvin. He hasnae had a bite tae eat on page 3

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ower tha hale lan, an he wus starvin wi hung'r. Sae he hired hïss on page 96

1 matches