A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'yrs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yrsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 yrs in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
of and of Atlas Gaeltacht (10 yrs) and Sybil Gaeltacht (3yrs) d
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Sivventy five yrs syne Nazi’s surrendered Alli(2020)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
tes, mak graph. 4cm every 100 yrs. Apply tae landscape. https:/ (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
rrific mess anaw...wis fit 30 yrs ago...near enough ?????? (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
r ?? Cannae be bad though, 64 yrs married and still going ??(2020)

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
e swim since breaking wrist 2 yrs ago and nerves in arm got dam(2015)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Under tableclothed tables (30 yrs ago so H&S ~~ ) and wairm clo(2020)