A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'yons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.964
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
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)
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 yons in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
unnjons @SwarovskiOptik Ooft! Yons a guid Shaetland bird! We bir (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
a smashin' artist. Canna mine yons name tho. I'll need ti ask ma(2019)
@scotsfilmguy Look at yons eens. Fit a beauty. X(2019)
ichardtuck1973 Fit like Loon. Yons a bonny place. I wis on i wee(2019)

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
“Ay, yons the Bleckcocks. Thay dae a gi
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@cligeey tweeted
Bags teem bit yons thwrang mair min https://t.co(2020)

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