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The word 'endeavour'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
endeavourOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71211
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 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 endeavour in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
FOR OUTSTANDING PERSONAL ENDEAVOUR on page 15

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
FOR OUTSTANDING PERSONAL ENDEAVOUR
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ce o humane an sensible human endeavour intae existence, this wis the on page 94

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Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
Endeavour's drip-feed wrangly veined. on page 18

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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Skilled endeavour, bold an' true,
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Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
y is that the boys promise to endeavour to stay out of harm's way dur on page 57

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Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
it an unnecessarily laborious endeavour as ah drag it through the res
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General Central

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
the Scottish Government will endeavour till: on page 5

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Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
e thae at aye thocht the hail endeavour pyntless, at we'r telt oor ki on page 4

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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
nt an a foont o collaborative endeavour for biggin
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@IshbelMcF tweeted
e iy just now. It is a worthy endeavour to try to increase the vocab (2019)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Would endeavour be enough on page 50

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