A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

descrive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.7 12.1 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2524 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors11 10 1

Occurrences of descrive in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
me wi his sheep. I ettle tae descrive him here sae I winna forget h on page 20
You are a stravaiger! Ye can descrive your planet tae me!' on page 55
Tae weel descrive the size o the Yird, I can te on page 58

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ways are near impossible tae descrive, but ah will ettle tae dae it on page 61
piece and she noo sterted tae descrive some o the byous things Matil on page 81

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
the present tense is used tae descrive an action gauin on the noo, t on page 10
objective. Ae screivar micht descrive a city as 'bonnie' but sic a on page 11
ein an adjective used for tae descrive onything sma, an rote bein a on page 12
le mak o a verb, used for tae descrive an action that is ongauin, is on page 22
t pairticiple is used for tae descrive an action that is complete. I on page 23
Also on pages 32
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
the first, Allan an Carswell descrive the campaign tae big a mindin on page 110

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Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
I'm no gaun tae descrive aa that's intil the thrie Sco on page 46

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
m Millar, wha ettles mair tae descrive whit fowk dae, no tell them w
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
in thae days, hoo wad a body descrive a craft in the air but for a
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
hether it’s legeetimate tae descrive it as a ‘Hiberno-Inglish’
ct in the same wey as ye coud descrive it as an ‘Irish Inglish’
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
I descrive Kemp’s Scots as ‘Lallansâ
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Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
nglish wird he could uise tae descrive it wis "rainy". Weel, as ah n
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
w the wey throu. A cuid juist descrive the hail ongaun as real theat
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
e be pairt o the language tae descrive somebody wi a daurk side tae
amstam champit' is yaised tae descrive Hyde cauld hertitly tramplin
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Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
y dream o last nicht. I canna descrive the dream tae ye. It wis a dr
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Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
descrive ae state o drunkenness. ‘Ro
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