A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

described Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.2 14.1 3 0 5.8 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences3328 2 0 1 1 1
Number of authors27 22 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of described in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
and storytelling. He is also described wi monie physical deformities on page 3

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Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
bout it but you yourself just described it as nasty. I realise you ha on page 13

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
watch shows that kin only be described as propaganda against the wor on page 16
ho's sportin what kin only be described as a long, equine shaped puss on page 76

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Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Wi swirlin paint ye described a life, on page 104

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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
ere tellt that they were bein described as French spies by some fowk, on page 27

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n ae her sharpener - but she described hersel in the letters as bein on page 123

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
.1478) may more accurately be described as early northern Middle Engl on page 15

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Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
a mervellous place that if I described it tae ye ye'd gang aff yer h on page 38

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
g. I've heard a shilpit sowel described as haein airms like 'twa ply on page 7

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ng thae three the ane at best described their ain speech. There was s on page 9

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
a mair respectfu teitil), ir described. The current speiker tells us
staen norie seimilar ti thaim described in the airlier pert o the com
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
A couthie word described in the Oxford English Diction
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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ry, it probably cid’ve been described as crimson or puce or anythin
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
o plays that Robert Mitchell described as ‘plays which hold their
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Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
e that the "puir folk" as she described thaim, had tint wance mair, a
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
technique other than the wan described an ye run the risk ay puttin
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Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
tion an gied whit can only be described as a “double take”. This
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McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
a bout o’ “Rogerisms”, described me as, ”Probably, the maist
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
said an elephant, but when he described the _ thing - ”
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Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
nd yaffs and whit cud only be described as wailin comin fae the back
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Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
rhythm.’ For someone wha is described in her bio on the Common Weal
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
some who believe that what Is described as "Scots Language" should be
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
the flair in what kin only be described as a double does ae baith ner
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@bigandymccoll tweeted
y well. Mibbe they were as he described a century ago (I think not) b (2022) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
asel intae all the collected, described, classified wee stones on all (2022) twitter link

@annieones tweeted
urus Awe hen that's braw, yae described big boris tae a tee..... a ca (2021) twitter link

Doric

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
contending fir whit is aften described as the maist powerful office
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
e #FEPOW an his hardships are described at https://t.co/QVi4LApduL #V(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
at night. Some accounts have described them as possessing a third ey(2019) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
And diligently described on page 12

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Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
nsibility fer Ulster-Scotsbes described es dalin wi' Ulster-Scots Lei on page 25

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