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The word 'descrives'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
descrivesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3146
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of descrives in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
accoont o his faither that he descrives as the 'great poet of the Sco
A Daurk Lyne o Fir Trees, TSL descrives a miner's day frae gettin owe
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
as in the passage whaur Fiona descrives a challengin crack she haes w
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
yon's Narrative, whaur Lanyon descrives wutnessin Hyde's physical chy
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
til the pert whaur Cervantes descrives a scene in whilk deils pleys
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
al terms - sic as thaim that descrives sindry criminal haunling - s on page 14

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
Here's hou Mackenzie Wallace descrives the ensuin dialogue. on page 12

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ollaein on fae this, Jillings descrives the wey government wis run, t on page 110

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
lichtening, sae Wintoun here descrives objects like starns that flew
o the first century AD, Boece descrives orra cheils in the air ower S
Whit Nisbet descrives here, in baith versions, is a
3 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
Hey, Johnny Cope in 1745 that descrives the fecht at the Pans (21 Sep
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
descrives hirsel is hevin the custodian
1 matches

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