A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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starving Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 2 4.4 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences74 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 2

Occurrences of starving in Corpus

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Central

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
starving weans. on page 56

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
hae much money, must hiv been starving; jings, they could hardly tal on page 47

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
ad sod all coming in. We were starving, the lot o’ us. Mrs Cooper
1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
absolutely starving, refuse tae get out ma bed th(2014) search twitter

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
bbie, "O at's fyne cus wer aw Starving," a say's. on page 32

2 matches

Martin, Keiron Ma Worst Nicht Oot, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
s makin ma mooth water. I wis starving. I wis jist aboot tae pit the
1 matches

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