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The word 'earnest'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
earnestOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 42.7 4 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 earnest in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
, an him aye spaekin tae her, earnest laek. Weel some athletes seem
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
tairtit te bubble an greet in earnest. on page 77

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ti the meen. An he said, affa earnest like, 'Na na na, they'll nivv on page 74

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
him. Life is real and life is earnest.
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ais, dain his best tae appear earnest.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
evous need. He prayed lang an earnest till, dowie an sair forfochen on page 29
i - baur the Lord himsel, in earnest prayer, seekin solace an deli on page 31
gs the gist o the meenister's earnest prayers, an hauf his plous mi on page 35
ack, an heid bowed, he prayed earnest an lang, wi great devotion, i on page 46

4 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
es tae kirk, guild an gairden earnest wark, on page 9

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Daein it yersel, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
it wis time dae the thing in earnest afore whit wis left o it drai
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
se them an the hunt wis up in earnest.

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Jist mak ae earnest plea an prayer.
1 matches

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