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The word 'deceesion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deceesionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3147
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh 25 4 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of deceesion in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
Hinnermaist Deceesion Ower Census 2001.
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
'A deceesion in meenits owre the phone' on page 141

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
kin that sma-scale, localised deceesion-makkin is the best wey forrit on page 33
he Lords wi direck access tae deceesion makars an his job is tae lobb on page 39
the commitment tae consensus deceesion makkin wan oot an made siccar on page 104

4 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
elief. She had made the richt deceesion tae come wi thir fowk. Hsien
ratic government cud mak that deceesion contrar the wusses o the popu
A wumman canna aywis mak that deceesion. It michtna be in her pooer.
e him while they cam tae some deceesion. Than they turnt thair backs
4 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
If a sowel maks the deceesion on page 12

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
deceesion an thaim whae cuidna bother t
o daith, itsel. Ay! At’s ae deceesion oo hev tae mak fur oorsels.
2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
t haednae gane alang wi thair deceesion tae kïll Jesus. He wus frae on page 110

1 matches

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