A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

descendin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 5.7 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1111 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 8

Occurrences of descendin in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
of control, so rather than it descendin intae more violence-" on page 59

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
him. Ah'm reminded ae bairns descendin oan the icey oan a hoat summe on page 50
doon and ma speech is rapidly descendin intae a garbled slur. on page 80
tell me stories aboot sailors descendin oan the port fae the four cor on page 86

3 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
alaver, watched Amanda Threip descendin in a lang gentie parabola on on page 108

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
bleck an yellae skinnit fowk descendin on these hallowit shores, bit on page 112

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ox bed jynes the bangin pipes descendin on page 79

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Fieldfares flocks descendin each October,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
, like a snowflake delicately descendin fae the sky.
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
his face bit A could see the descendin’ tip o’ his bayo………
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
n’, gravity accelerated the descendin’ bottle, which cracked the
1 matches

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