Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'description'

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Use in varieties of Scots

description	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	13	43	23
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	46.5	8	3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	6.5	2	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	10.5	1	1
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	17.8	4	4
DUN - Dundee	31.9	3	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.1	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	18.4	14	6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	80	8	4
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of description in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Hoosumivver, as yit de ir nae description o da language as it wis afore on page 10
wan- (maks da negated description): wanwirt 'trifle' (wan- + wi on page 43
description. Da siccint kind o predicatio on page 86

5 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
t’ wis wint ta be a English description o da Shaetlan tongue, noo hit
’ as da naem - no juist da description - o dat tongue. Dis means at
2 matches

@HazelTindall tweeted
romoteShetland Interesting - description o föshinless is whit Id ca(2020)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Ye'r nae affa like yer description." His date grinned an leent o on page 56

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ortraits oan canvas at defied description. on page 29

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
ce. Grunny is ticht-fisted, a description I learnt fae her this wik fan
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Bit-part Billie. The Count's description o ye wiz an understatement. on page 40

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
It wis a description o a sturdy quine ina. A bet s(2020)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
That fittit his description tae a tee on page 51

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
e o the yairn is taen up wi a description o the uncle’s sindrie norie
1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
the girls and Livvy gave the description ae the 'creepy hing' and wit
1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
s… ah canne gie ye a better description cus suddenly, afore ah proper
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
been cawed, but that's a fair description. Ae thing is certain, that th on page 94
but there's a feck o fowk the description fits. There's plenty o Englis on page 115

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
amang the Dundonians that yon description fits. Tae me Dundee 1s reflec on page 9

1 matches

Glasgow

McCrory, Pat Lallans 57 - Jimsie’s Maw’s Soup, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
Wi'oot further description he wrote oot a prescription, on page 29

1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
stin a "fuller, mair detailed description o whit Scots is and whaur it on page 9
es, shuid be incluidit in the description in this saiction. on page 39

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
navy, age, caufgrund, a gie a description o whit thay lookit like, an s on page 52

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
itterin Bite, whaur Donovan's description o eatin hot maet efter a jaun on page 60

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
Mortality, that sterts wi the description o a wappenschaw - a muster o on page 6
y eyes water" - whit a great description o the pouer o Scots sang...I on page 11

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ed an jist hung in the air, a description that haes the eerie ring o ac
that belanged the time an the description soonds mair like a modren UFO
anna lippen on it as a pyntit description o thon time, but it daes shaw
The description abuin is aw the mair intressi
aw the mair intressin for his description o “forky lightning frae a c
5 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
be haurd tae pictur sic a job description nouadays but, forby keepin th
1 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
s oot “Scots” is a jist a description an no a linguistic “bein”
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
he had the hives Guid Scots description o a dour scunner. Hives are b(2020)

General Ulster

HRConnect Candidate Wittens Beuklet, (Northern Ireland Executive 2025) Ulster, government
Section 2 - Roul Description on page 3
Section 2 - ROUL DESCRIPTION on page 4

2 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
sonnel Specification an' Joab Description on page 11
Description. on page 61

4 matches

Belfast City Council Leid Strategy – Draft Ection Plen 2023-2026, (Belfast City Council 2023) Ulster, government
Tae gie clear description oan wabsteid an City o’ quh
1 matches

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@fikeane for this marvellous description of the speech and folk of Str(2020)