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The word 'yaises'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yaisesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51811
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.7 7 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 7
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 yaises in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
y kens aboot Yakcam's aix, he yaises it as a plane, a hemmer, a sc on page 86

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
y survive if the Scots nation yaises it for ilka-day spoken commun
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
o life: if the community that yaises Scots tae blether anent sport
Scots tae blether anent sport yaises mair Scots, than that uiss wi
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
is in rhyme, only juist the 3 yaises the Standard Habbie format: T
His weel scanned lines whiles yaises iambic pentameter, but he see
Hall an Auld Davie. Whiles he yaises the vice o the character in t
3 matches

Edinburgh

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
ent spikkers, an o thaim that yaises Cornish day-tae-day is like t on page 107

1 matches

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
's a pal fae thi Gorbals that yaises it so mibbe no widely yaised. (2020) twitter link

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
and fox). The form that Burns yaises for the polecat, thummart, wi
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ess, The Guid Sisters (1989), yaises the occasion o a wumman gaini
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
owel, an sum o thaim probably yaises rude wurds on Twitter. This c
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Review: O is for Hoolet, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
her ain native tung, that she yaises fluently an confidently (alan
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
speiker o SSE, but no Scots, yaises siclike seyins, they are yais
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Scotland’s Celtic leid – yaises ‘aon’ in the ae twafauld
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
’ wuid be tricky, BSL grammar yaises placement. In the video they (2018)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
cotsScriever Ma local butcher yaises the term 'ham hough' - ah sa(2016)

@LairnScots tweeted
@BetheneC This resource yaises Google translate, which disna (2021) twitter link

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