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Use in varieties of Scots

crescent Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 6.4 1.5 9.9 0 51.7 11.6
Number of occurrences2313 1 1 0 5 3
Number of authors14 9 1 1 2 1

Occurrences of crescent in Corpus

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Central

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
his ringlets in the shape o a crescent. If the eejit hudny hud the m on page 102

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
the High Street and Whitehall Crescent, gien access tae the back o s on page 16

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
is the oo that's cawd Under a Crescent Moon. It's dead good, it's aw on page 169

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Chappin the door o five Agnew Crescent, on page 87

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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
uare tae dicht, an Pernickety Crescent. Forby, the Provost o Fantoos on page 9

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
t, lut up, with the shape o a crescent, an fleein alang. On the 18t
a second object muckle like a crescent follaed on, baith dwynin awa
t. The ‘ceegar’ an the ‘crescent’ daesna soond like ony airc
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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
ymbols, sic as the mirror and crescent and v-rod.
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Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
heir hame cam fae the Fertile Crescent. The launds kent the day as S
or launds ootwith the Fertile Crescent, especially for Scotland.
kin oot fae their ain fertile crescent atween Caithness, throu Aiber
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n wave a reid cross or a reid crescent or a reid lama’s erse, itâ€
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Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
s Geneva's 'Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum'. Ye can spend the day on page 6

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The Crescent! Wha lives in H McK's owld ho on page 138

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Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Unner the crescent muin's cauld lowe on page 34

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Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
29. The Crescent Muin: do.
THE CRESCENT MUIN
The crescent muin leims
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The Westender Pipin for the Young Yins, (The Hawick Paper 2008) Southern, newspaper
ain practice hall up Slitrig Crescent. A yaised tae hear thum pract
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Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
was leadin us roon Greenland Crescent in a dummy fluit band.
ng ower the backs o Greenland Crescent an across the GEC fectory pla
seen her skate doon Greenland Crescent, an she took a wile tummle at
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