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The word 'decked'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deckedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.488
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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)

Occurrences of decked in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
decked oot wae wur stoor-bliind on page 9

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
s eesed tae seein toon quines decked up tae the nines, wi their ha
1 matches

Mid Northern B

Riddell, Conor San Diego, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
fowk a way. The shops were a decked oot in bonny Christmas decora
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Decked oot his lanely island realm, on page 11

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
the class an then she nearly decked Miss Price when she run intae on page 30

1 matches

General Central

Beckett, Mavis Duncan Lallans 59 - Auntie Aggie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
on penguin burds whan she wis decked oot wi her bleck shuit an fit on page 118

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
An ower the dew-decked mairlan she sees the hilltaps on page 18

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
decked out in blue blazered holiday on page 50

1 matches

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