A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'yonks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yonksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.964
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 yonks in Corpus

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General Northern

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
glaikit so he is, blocked him yonks ago. Empty drums make the mai(2019)

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
e polis that we'v aw kent for yonks on page 135

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South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
a feel ye big time! Fir yonks, a can see those fuckin elite(2020)
when a was in youth club many yonks ago, there were almost mair t(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ex. Ah've been yerkin yon fir yonks wi Scots. Hoo no? Naw, there'(2020)
ColinBurnett16 Vote in fir ye yonks ago bud (2020) twitter link