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Use in varieties of Scots

descend Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.3 6.1 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1412 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of descend in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ryone else n their granny wid descend on the scene n it wid be over on page 45

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
dinnae need tae descend fae the spunk ae some lord in on page 93

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Saw peace descend alang the Western Front; on page 88

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
before an awkward silence kin descend. on page 12

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Bit noo A'm startin tae descend; on page 62

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Doom will descend to-morrow -
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Bit noo A'm startin tae descend;
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tory ah wis, an continue, tae descend.
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
han the ascent. Beth or A wid descend, the ithir wid wait an’ des
, the ithir wid wait an’ descend ain't Marion, then change rol
Tae Hell, we did descend,
3 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
'twas unco as it stairted tae descend back under mah bedroom. Takin
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
erty? One of our officers can descend for the exchange.’
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A darkness does descend on page 16

1 matches

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