A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

yerkin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 0 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences42 0 0 0 2 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of yerkin in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
stap pechin, stap yerkin, on page 77

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Get a move on or ah'll stert yerkin ye up and doon and yer hair w on page 144

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Ah keep yerkin Scots as a language that can (2020) search twitter
grand pynts Alex. Ah've been yerkin yon fir yonks wi Scots. Hoo n(2020) search twitter