A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'decorations'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
decorationsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61211
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 decorations in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
hillside dat has dir ootside decorations on da hoos aa year round #Its (2019) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
in? I saw a braw pyock o Xmas decorations AND a siller tree left
1 matches

Mid Northern B

Riddell, Conor San Diego, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
decked oot in bonny Christmas decorations. There wis every decoration y
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
kagin zhuzed up wi aa kynes o decorations that are reid, fyte an blue.
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
tae tack doon yon Xmas tree & decorations & felt a wee click fan I stre(2018)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
o as isobel took doon awe the decorations the day n got the tree packed (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Auldhill wis makin Christmas decorations fur the dance hall an she ask on page 34
noticed aw the homemade Santa decorations that wur hangin fae the waws on page 169

2 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
Are you gonny make Christmas decorations, hen?
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
olk dain the fab knitted tree decorations are Musselburgh/Wallyford Yar(2018)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ah'll still be pittin up the decorations in the porch(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ah'll still be pittin up the decorations in the porch(2020)

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