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The word 'appetite'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
appetiteOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21411
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 appetite in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
œI’m sorry I jist hinna the appetite but I’ll tak anither bowl o
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
r has completely gone and her appetite’s fully back. She’s back
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
oot the nicht. Ah've loast ma appetite. on page 40

2 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
He lost his appetite for meat on page 17

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
uivin that there a richt guid appetite amang young readers for guid
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
s for bairns. Here agane, the appetite for readin oor ain language a
els haes experienced the same appetite amang the young fowk o Scotla
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
d tae failure. Oor insatiable appetite an woeful income, versus oor
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
weather that gies ye a muckle appetite. Maist o us find oorselves st on page 46

1 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
wha's nocht but appetite an bizz. on page 53

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
ze o his horns, an his muckle appetite; hoo the servants had tae fli
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
it, an it seems there’s nae appetite i the pairty tae challenge Du
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
. Hei wis ae man wi ae hertie appetite an hei wis yince heard tae sa
1 matches

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