A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

decoration Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences42 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of decoration in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
irnie o stanes, And the anely decoration on the tattered waws wis a mu on page 29

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
h kennin: "harl". This is the decoration on hooses whaur a layer o cem
1 matches

Doric

Riddell, Conor San Diego, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
decorations. There wis every decoration you could think o, tinsel, ba
1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@jim36fpc the heid was a decoration on a buildin that was took do (2014) twitter link