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The word 'decker'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deckerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11712
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.1 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 decker in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
onies, plinky boat and double decker Belmont cafe #unstagram(2013)

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
r pylt richt up lyke a dubble decker bus, Ther wis ass muckle weic on page 20

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
nce fleer looks like a double-decker bus oot o control? Bit are ye on page 94

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
ns tae shove her aff a double decker at high speed.
1 matches

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
the time he nicked the double decker bus, but that's anither story on page 7

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
oan the dooble-decker.
oan the dooble-decker bus.
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ordon1875 better wae a double decker jonny - dinnae lissen tae th (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ee bar ae chocolate, a Double Decker, oan the picnic table next to on page 24
ur the knickers an the Double Decker, on page 26

4 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ain road, stoappin the double decker bus that’s comin, an waves
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - The Sycamore at Calton, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
Atop rid dooble-decker Western buses,
1 matches

General Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
ain pu'ed in.........a double decker !!! Ma jaw hit the flair !!! (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
, A see a big luminous double decker come swervin roon the corner
1 matches

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