A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

decorations Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.6 6 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences127 4 0 1 0 0
Number of authors11 6 4 1

Occurrences of decorations in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Auldhill wis makin Christmas decorations fur the dance hall an she ask on page 34
noticed aw the homemade Santa decorations that wur hangin fae the waws on page 169

2 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
Are you gonny make Christmas decorations, hen?
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
olk dain the fab knitted tree decorations are Musselburgh/Wallyford Yar(2018) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ah'll still be pittin up the decorations in the porch(2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ah'll still be pittin up the decorations in the porch(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
o as isobel took doon awe the decorations the day n got the tree packed (2020) twitter link

Doric

Riddell, Conor San Diego, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
decked oot in bonny Christmas decorations. There wis every decoration y
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
in? I saw a braw pyock o Xmas decorations AND a siller tree left
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
kagin zhuzed up wi aa kynes o decorations that are reid, fyte an blue.
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
tae tack doon yon Xmas tree & decorations & felt a wee click fan I stre(2018) search twitter

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
hillside dat has dir ootside decorations on da hoos aa year round #Its (2019) twitter link