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Use in varieties of Scots

yak Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 4.1 6 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences158 4 0 1 2 0
Number of authors5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of yak in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
Yak ma advice fir whit it's wirth on page 44

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
oo thinks Ah’m as ugly as a yak’s erse.”
ll, “Ah’ve ne’er seen a yak’s erse, bit Ah am willin fo
buik in a lamasery. A bit lik yak, bit no sae douce. Bit they s
n led her at a fair pace up a yak trail. They scrauchlet ower t
brae wi the scroggy twigs an yak shairn that had been collecki
7 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
. Aa aat greetin an girnin - yak, yak, yak, yak." He gied a wr on page 86

4 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
I need a pair o yun Lucy and Yak dungarees in my life, dey loo(2021) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@Linsey_xo nut cause its a yak #naechance #looser????(2012) search twitter
asni lying last night linsey #yak(2012) search twitter