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Use in varieties of Scots

decade Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.4 11.2 1.6 9.9 5.8 0 22.1
Number of occurrences2921 1 1 1 0 5
Number of authors20 15 1 1 1 2

Occurrences of decade in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
still gettin cried it as the decade turnt and a third bairn fille on page 78

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
murderous madness o the past decade slowly dwined awa - in whit on page 62

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
truly 'pacified' till near a decade eftir Culloden, that muckle o on page 61
u aw the austerity o the past decade, the nch hae been gettin nche on page 81

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
up daisies fur near enough a decade, but he's never far fae ma mi on page 1
ings went fae bad tae worse a decade later. It started wi a cough, on page 5

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ae interviewin in Aiberdeen a decade later, Ah mad siccar at the U on page 9

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Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ve publication til a specific decade: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s 1970s; o on page 95

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Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
een biggin, an throu the past decade or twa there been guid pruif
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
‘The Citizens’ durin this decade: ‘Right Royal’, ‘Tam oâ
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Mair nor a decade eftir, A Solemn Mass for a Fu
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Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
al Scots community fir mony a decade noo. Here agin, the ayebidin
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Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ching the start of my seventh decade, those boyhood dreams are bey
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Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
Aboot a decade later, we reached the realm o
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Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
UK ootbye the EU, as gin the decade atween (lat’s be real) isna
unrecognisable. It could be a decade defined by terrorism an confl
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
The lest decade haes been defined, braidly, b
o. At ilka turn for awmaist a decade, fowk hae been sayin, “Ah,
s’ best election for ower a decade, as they tripled their repres
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McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
aim in a bad licht. Near on a decade an a hauf o constant war an d
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@Chazzbat tweeted
y?! Whaur've ye been the last decade?!(2020) search twitter

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
In the post-World War II decade on page 32

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Ah'm no hid a sniff in a decade and he offers tae pay me as w on page 43

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
@afjgillespie It's aboot a decade fae I read it, but it's worth(2021) search twitter

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ty an' recognition in the New Decade New Approach (NDNA) 'Greement on page 4
culture an' the New Decade New Approach(NDNA) terminolog on page 25
rotection hae cum fae the New Decade New Approach on page 58
* The New Decade New Approach committments ir on page 60

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DfC Press Offys Hargey sets oot Owersettin Hub, (Depairtment fur Commonities 2021) Ulster, government
ments ower tha heid o tha New Decade, New Oancum writ.
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