A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

descrieve Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 4.1 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences88 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of descrieve in Corpus

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
s an ex-senior pleyer, he kin descrieve the airt o fitba lik nae ithe on page 124

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
o Iona, yaised Picti fur tae descrieve Britons whae bidit north o th
cient Greek makar) in 430 BC, descrieve a pentit fowk bidin there.
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
r, it is less yaisefu fur tae descrieve whit the speiker is daein. Th
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
yaised by the Romans fur tae descrieve early Gaelic-speikin fowks -
terms are noo yaised fur tae descrieve the Gaelic spak in Scotland.
2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
richt an the kinna kintrae ye descrieve is anely possibly in an indep(2020) search twitter
cht weel gae agley. Words tae descrieve sic a bairnie: unco, byordnar(2020) search twitter

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