describe | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
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Total Corpus | 13.2 | 43 | 27 |
ORK - Orkney | 9.9 | 1 | 1 |
SHD - Shetland | 29.1 | 5 | 3 |
TON - Tonge | |||
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) | |||
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle) | |||
MNA - Mid Northern A | 13.1 | 4 | 2 |
MNB - Mid Northern B | |||
SNO - South Northern | 325.5 | 2 | 1 |
ABN - Aberdeen | |||
DOR - General Northern | 13.3 | 3 | 2 |
NEC - North East Central | |||
SEC - (South) East Central | |||
WCE - West Central | 13.8 | 3 | 3 |
DUN - Dundee | 42.5 | 4 | 2 |
EDN - Edinburgh | 6.3 | 1 | 1 |
GLA - Glasgow | 13.7 | 3 | 3 |
AYR - Ayrshire | |||
LAL - General Central | 21.2 | 16 | 10 |
SEA - South East (Borders) | |||
SWE - South West (Galloway) | |||
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) | |||
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) | 163.5 | 1 | 1 |
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) |
Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
eses da wird ‘dialect’ ta describe da Shaetlan tongue even whin
ird idder as ‘dialect’ ta describe da Shaetlan tongue. Dis means
2 matches
@tattooedselkie tweeted
use it as a general word tae describe seals.(2021)
Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he wye he cud tell stories an describe the lan an the birds an the b on page 91
2 matches
Blackhall, Sheena Drumneachie Ferm, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Doric, poetry
iolets.’ Sheena disnae jist describe the ferm, her Scots pits ye t
1 matches
Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
a Lewis Mumford’s ettle tae describe the monie facets o Patrick Ge
1 matches
Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
hereby, the wirds we need tae describe them. In the same wey as the
1 matches
Pennie, Len The year A shouldnae hae had, (tictok 2022) Central - Kilmarnock, poetry
there's no braw wee way tae describe how A felt
1 matches
Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Eh've trehed ti describe it in so many wurds on page 80
eh jist canna describe. on page 98
n we thoughts that eh kin now describe on page 99
3 matches
Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
“Can you describe your symptoms?”
1 matches
@johnstone_shane tweeted
ctual boke, usually juist tae describe the gag when ye see somethin (2020) twitter link
Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Cause A dinnae hae words tae describe ye; the wee sang ae oors lies on page 77
there's no braw wee way tae describe how A felt, but there's milli on page 92
2 matches
Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
hin yin, but it disnae really describe the wey Coont Olaf had been a on page 74
3 matches
Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ce before it vanished. Others describe it thus: that the night being
1 matches
Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
face like a Liptons bairn tae describe a chubby, weel-fed bairn. Lip
1 matches
Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
lt something. It’s hard tae describe what it felt like. Raw meat u
1 matches
Facebook link ( 2016) Central
d and fierce. Later Bruce wud describe the rebels as, “‘Fightin
@ionafyfe tweeted
wabbit on a weekly basis tae describe foo I feel fan eejits think t(2020)
@billykayscot tweeted
a phrase thats perfect tae describe a wheen Tory, Slab an Libdem (2020)
ye yaise the word hippit tae describe feelin gey stiff an sair when(2020)
@DABArbuckle tweeted
wis yased in oor faimily tae describe onybody wha micht hae hud the(2020)
@LairnScots tweeted
rite Scots wird or phrase tae describe the weather. #Scots #ScotsEdu (2018) twitter link
o Scots wirds bein yaised tae describe geographical features. Lesson (2018) twitter link