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The word 'desires'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
desiresOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3109
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 desires in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
hiel near etten up bi his ain desires, yet haudin back, seein foo t
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Thair's mony fowks enticed bi desires that evvir an oan begowk thai on page 106
oan oor desires, whit haurdships she can thol on page 114

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
concrete realisation o their desires, a big, beautiful Mount Rushm
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
yir hert desires, on page 112

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Tae achieve your desires, you struggle an’ strive.
1 matches

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
pin laundscapes. Oor needs an desires determine hou we uise the lau
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n. He wis deaved wi pheesical desires that he cudna git oot o his h
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Thaim that desires tae learn mair anent, or beco on page 51

1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
e not driven by the same base desires as men. He's right, all men g (2022) twitter link

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