A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

decides Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 10.3 7.5 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2720 5 1 0 0 1
Number of authors20 14 4 1 1

Occurrences of decides in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
hile but he won the struggle. Decides I'm thick. Fine by me. on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d by the time reality finally decides tae bite they'm oan the erse on page 28
Aldo decides tae ignore ma coonter argumen on page 38
n and questionable chants. He decides tae join me and Craig at the on page 101
play wae. Especially if Aldo decides tae cause yin ae his infamous on page 103
Craig?" ah say. But, alas, he decides tae assert his right tae rema on page 136

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
her jist in case Nicola's ma decides tae gie Charlene's ticket fur on page 115

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
cots language an its speakers decides that they've haed eneuch an y
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
o the yairn. Leddie Forester decides ti inquire at a medium, mebbi
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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
it she’s said), and the dug decides it’s ma new pal and pounces
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Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
and he is refused entry so he decides tae try and make a scene by s
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
g the path a bit afore McDade decides tae skin up while we’re wai
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Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
him until such times that he decides the debt’s paiyed aff.
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Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
11. Whit the Scots Government decides tae pit afore the Scots Pairl
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Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
airtie gets added up, an this decides hoo monie MPs the pairties ge
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grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
three dates wi’ Lorna, she decides she disnae like us enough to
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Facebook link ( 2021) Central
tae his ain stupid orders. He decides they need some biblical lesso

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ire intae his drink. Until he decides tae fianally take the plunge.
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@OliphantWullie tweeted
ery much fir yir gift) and it decides how to allocate it. Ye,ve bee (2022) twitter link

@pmcm1355 tweeted
nae different, unless the UK decides tae discriminate agin Scots, (2022) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e anither tull the gweed Lord decides te tak ma hame. on page 48

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@72redz1903 tweeted
yan Christie, great touch but decides tae blast the ba than pass th (2021) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
own barmaid at the Fittie Bar decides that she is nae closing until(2020) search twitter
y jist a wee swally, until he decides tae invite his next door neig(2020) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
s channel is noo on. Fit erse decides ahts a guid idea in fecking S(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Hids the waethur that decides this seasons style on page 97

1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
decides no tae mak' sich materials th on page 56

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