Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'decorate'

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Use in varieties of Scots

decorate	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.5	5	4
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	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)

Occurrences of decorate in Corpus

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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

Mid Northern A

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

General Northern

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

South East (Borders)

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