yarn | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
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Occurences normalised per million words | 15.1 | 2.5 | 3 | 29.8 | 63.9 | 0 | 123.9 | |
Number of occurrences | 49 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 28 | |
Number of authors | 21 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
An tummelt doun ma maiden yarn yince mair on page 59
1 matches
Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Sae gin ye believe ma oul yarn ye'll alloo on page 23
1 matches
Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Mibbe its shan to yarn on about Evans for ages n the
1 matches
Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The kenspeckle yarn haes been re-imagined intae t
1 matches
Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Corn, lint an yarn
1 matches
Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
weaves homespun yarn in an oot tae fill the hole on page 117
1 matches
Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
I mind on a yarn me mither’s brither telt
1 matches
De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
i used ta veesit him an hae a yarn fae time ta time an help him on page 14
1 matches
Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
night wi twartree cans, fur a yarn, an he wis aye blyde ta see d on page 4
Slowly at first, we began ta yarn, an dan da eftirnune just fle on page 49
2 matches
De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
a bed an maet, a dram, a göd yarn. on page 34
1 matches
Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
tae da shop, hed a lichtsome yarn, got da mell an saat, an head
1 matches
Isbister, Sonny Caves aroond Shetland, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
Efter a peerie yarn, da trow said ‘Follow me!
1 matches
Watt, Valerie Birsie’s Brunt Bed, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
irsie aften comes alang for a yarn an a peerie coarn tae aet. We
1 matches
Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
per,” said Pepper. We hed a yarn an he seemed a fine sowel.
1 matches
Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
lippit on wir hill an I hed a yarn wi him dastreen. He’s looki
1 matches
Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
a gant an purled wi a piece o yarn hingin fae his sleeve.
1 matches
Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
skey, aiblins he'll tell ye a yarn or twa aboot tha oul place. A on page 8
ldrich banes wull nyitter and yarn on page 22
4 matches
Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
He, an for the purposes o oor yarn the day we'll call him a he, on page 44
1 matches
Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
ir's time tae stap an' spin a yarn, on page 16
1 matches
McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
tannin fur a smoke an haein a yarn. on page 3
1 matches
Hanna, Wendy Gaitherin’ Purdas!, (Facebook - Schomberg Society 2020) Ulster, poetry
Fading sun, a yarn to tell,
1 matches
King, Angeline Untitled, (twitter 2021) Ulster - Larne, poetry
scle ah was niver stuck for a yarn frae folk at the front deur a
1 matches
@the_gellick tweeted
ons: Armstrong gied thon moon yarn in braid Ulster Scots.. http: (2015) twitter link
f you're doonby: aye up for a yarn in the aul Ulster Scots! Aa t (2014) twitter link
nder doon on #Halloween he'll yarn tae you (in braid #UlsterScot (2014) twitter link
oice" (an a guid #UlsterScots yarn). https://t.co/V4l7W24y1F (2016) twitter link
w saison: an aul #UlsterScots yarn that thon eejit Adam thoucht (2014) twitter link
and 12 other occurrences.