A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

describe Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.2 13.3 14.4 9.9 29.1 0 4.4
Number of occurrences4125 9 1 5 0 1
Number of authors27 17 5 1 3 1

Occurrences of describe in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
honestly the best wey ah kin describe it. And sometimes. Well, quit on page 34

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
some close that ah could only describe as lookin like a slum. Ah mea on page 104

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
dream o last nicht. Ah cannae describe thon dream tae ye. It wis a d on page 6

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
that's no the richt ward tae describe the generally brutal conquest on page 98

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

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The openin lines describe aa sorts o cat-wittit behavio on page 116

1 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

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

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
“Can you describe your symptoms?”
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

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

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) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
a phrase that’s perfect tae describe a wheen Tory, Slab an Libdem (2020) search twitter
ye yaise the word hippit tae describe feelin gey stiff an sair when(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
wis yased in oor faimily tae describe onybody wha micht hae hud the(2020) search twitter

@johnstone_shane tweeted
ctual boke, usually juist tae describe the gag when ye see somethin (2020) twitter link

@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

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
el Elsie, he wid maist likely describe er es a 'child of trauma'. Bi on page 65

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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

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
via Lewis Mumford's ettle tae describe the monie facets o Patrick Ge on page 125

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

Blackhall, Sheena Drumneachie Ferm, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Doric, poetry
iolets.’ Sheena disnae jist describe the ferm, her Scots pits ye t
1 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
s a word in the dictionary to describe how much i hate that cunt(2014) search twitter

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
his is really nae an issue. I describe myself as an ‘Inverurie quin(2020) search twitter
ked a brick instead you could describe it as being ‘hard as Hinners(2020) search twitter

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
not exactly, and very hard to describe. Mostly I hear it in the word(2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Da neest twartree sections'll describe dis vowels an consonants at's on page 22
attributes an dey ir wint tae describe nouns. Examples o adjectives on page 51

2 matches

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) search twitter

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
‘Thaveless’ can be used to describe a clumsy, awkward person or e(2020) search twitter