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The word 'starve'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
starveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 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 starve in Corpus

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General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
ot rabbits and hares we widna starve ah kept lookin at the broon e
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ensioners huddock. Wid rather starve than eat yon rubbit food. For(2016)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ad soggy I wis either that or starve cause ah went an forgot ma di on page 146

1 matches

General Central

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
Raiph. How kid they vote tae starve weans? ????(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
where naebody will see a wean starve, freeze tae death, but will s (2022) twitter link