A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

describin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 4.3 0 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences118 0 0 3 0 0
Number of authors9 7 2

Occurrences of describin in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
he spoke. It wis as if he wis describin the battle ae the Somme tae m on page 33

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ives' (there are ither weys o describin them) dinnae even need tae be on page 90

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
His story begins by describin him walkin through the local on page 23

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ilbert the Filbert as a wey o describin a vauntie, idle chiel. A can
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
nded, bit cuid dae wi a trim. Describin whit the Hereawa luikit lik w
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
gain or booty. Mind ma uncle describin a bookie as bein “only in it(2020) search twitter
A Scots saw describin the exploitation o Scotland’(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
sychopaths. They're basically describin Trump.(2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Shetland. Reider, whit dis is describin is, ithin a braali gineral wy on page 22
agein da predication is jüst describin it an hit onli really links a on page 85

2 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
a dialect, dan whit Morton is describin here wid be caad ‘illiterac
1 matches

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