A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

descendit Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 3.5 4.4 0 0 0 9.7
Number of occurrences127 3 0 0 0 2
Number of authors10 7 1 2

Occurrences of descendit in Corpus

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Central

Donaldson, Gordon Lallans 82 - Belike a Mishanter, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
irchbishop o Lima - had iver descendit wi the baggage insteid o cros on page 29

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
cock whethir yer bit manto's descendit fae on page 113

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
wither is a covert Scotticism descendit frae Aald English but noo sur
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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
r likely that the Pechts were descendit fae the hamelt peoples o Scot
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
wi that an lat her gang. She descendit gracefully fae his knee, giei
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Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
lish. They’re sister leids, descendit fae a common forebear. They s
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@pmcm1355 tweeted
nment, the EU an UNESCO. It's descendit fae the Angles, Jutes, Saxons (2022) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
A steeny silence descendit ower the proceedins an Jinny on page 37

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
An ackward silence descendit wi Elspeth's departure. on page 30
eath as anither hivvy silence descendit. on page 76

2 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
rystit tae a man caad Joseph, descendit frae Kïng Davit. on page 70

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Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
es ap grandas. These fowk wur descendit fae tha Scotch that cum iwer
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