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The word 'yisterday'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yisterdayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.54425
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 105.5 3 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 6
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.7 7 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31.3 5 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 327 2 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of yisterday in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
gied aff in 1821 laek hit wis yisterday. Less a less, for sicca ess!
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Phoned da garage yisterday ta git snow tyres, when I sai (2021) twitter link

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Finallt assembled this yisterday efter it lyin aboot in hits b (2018) twitter link
n shetland whar im fae we say yisterday for yesterday and dastreen fo (2018) twitter link

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
queer everything is eday! An yisterday things went on joost as usual on page 17
ve. "A heard e Queen say only yisterday e deserved till be beheided!" on page 74
ut id's no use goan back till yisterday, becase A wis a different per on page 99

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
jist said it hid aa happened yisterday fin Alec wis wirkin ootside. on page 23
aboot some furnitir Ah saa in yisterday's 'P and J'." on page 71

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
contents: a broon tidemark o yisterday's coffee; twa fag-eyns; three on page 43
"He wis wirkin in the gairden yisterday fin he jist drappit doon. Ah on page 83

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Yisterday's 'Sun'," said Beldie, tryin on page 20

1 matches

General Northern

Stewart, Del Tales Fae The Doric Side - Haudagain, 8:12 am, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
radio plays the same sang fae yisterday, on page 86

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
Yisterday it felled iz jist afore denne
a wis makkin yisterday.
2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
g Ramirez, I wis up in Buckie yisterday, and it may jist be me, but R (2022) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
forbes32 Oor eens got wrecked yisterday https://t.co/416BnrwJ3u(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
rechlin’ roon th local shops yisterday n ‘en a’ pit th gither we a(2020)
imeeannenaylor aye it came in yisterday x(2012)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
, scarve & woollen jecket awa yisterday as thought Spring was here! B(2017)
Fit a day yisterday! Weather wis decent enough so(2020)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
said. 'Andrew brought it ower yisterday..' on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Stevie hud mentioned suttin yisterday when ah bumped intae him in t on page 33
Matt tried tne reassure me at yisterday's COBRA meetin that it'll aw on page 54
"Ah bumped intae Justine yisterday at that posh coffee shoap in on page 64

3 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ad fixed the lock on his room yisterday, so he'd left his hold-all ah on page 38
Mary's place. I seen ye there yisterday." on page 43

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
he Noon Record whit haed been yisterday’s news, wis the day’s tab
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
had some bits o cauld meat an yisterday’s breid. He tried tae barte
in. “Ah overdid it a bittie yisterday,” he sayed, wi an effort.
ry o the scunner she had felt yisterday, an felt again whan he cam ne
. An Bill. Hsien had telt her yisterday, bit they hadna been able tae
ate rendezvous in the gairden yisterday.
5 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Yisterday, a big, brutal ginger ned tha on page 2

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
d startit afore Jackie phoned yisterday. Goat it oan the low heat ben
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
er month wis up the day afore yisterday." on page 138

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
s tae aw who vote in part wan yisterday vote in part 2 noo! The aye c(2020)

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
Just seen ma team beat celtic yisterday #geeeeeeoannnnnnnkilllllie(2012)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
The ploughman o' the yisterday on page 12
Ah think ye toul mae yisterday on page 45

2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Bak then, lake yisterday, lake on page 20

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
hat had the Guid Lord daen wi yisterday's Leonard? on page 11
"Yisterday. We come the Free State road. on page 55

2 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Fur me dinner the yisterday evenin. on page 35

1 matches

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