A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

decorate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 1 3 0 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences72 2 0 2 1 0
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of decorate in Corpus

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Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
icane an Mig Fighter wad then decorate the dresser in yer bedroom or on page 23

1 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
w the time. Folk wid move in, decorate, be aw happy then the next th on page 7

1 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah think aats time tae decorate an buy a spleet TV - hiv a g(2017) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t, next year nae tree, I will decorate a wee plunt wee tinsel & a co(2018) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
tree oot a da laft, an we'll decorate him specially fur dee." on page 28
ta him fur wir hooses. We wid decorate dem wi shalls, an boannie pee on page 54

2 matches

Southern

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@RachelNuttella al decorate ur room if e strip for is?(2012) search twitter