A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

yay Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 0 0 5.8 10.9 0
Number of occurrences64 0 0 1 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of yay in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
phone, and A mouth ‘Sah-Rah-Yay-Vo?’ et him like he’s the
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
@dtammcd Yay! Thanks for clarifying. Easy (2020) search twitter

@IshbelMcF tweeted
@KnitBikeNom @turlygod Yay! A braw Venn Diagram tae fin (2019) search twitter
@jessicafostekew @stefsmith yay for Idil Sukan!(2019) search twitter

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
@ukulemae Yay! Good tae hear ??(2021) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
@iseult @MagiGibson Yay, ta loads pal x (2020) twitter link