Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

yawn	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.9	5	3	0	0	0	4.8
Number of occurrences	13	10	2	0	0	0	1
Number of authors	6	3	2				1

Occurrences of yawn in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e. Before he lits oot a tired yawn and he seems content. Which a on page 150

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
�s sleep. Kat wis stertin tae yawn, an Doug wis snowkin aroond f
‘Doug?’ speired Kat, wi a yawn. ‘Hoo mony ither wormholes
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
littin oot a pathetic, tired yawn. At this point ah reach behin
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
onse team tae move the bin - yawn yawn lol (2020) twitter link
op of the list for selfies - yawn yawn lol (2020) twitter link
ppv for sports n awe that - yawn yawn lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
urple lift, Plnky wid raxx an yawn an scoor his wee green teeth
1 matches

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
inks hes an opinion former. Yawn, jog on ye radge, Scotland di(2019) search twitter

Ulster

Watson, Audrey Yarns 3 - The Tay Meetin, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Fermanagh, prose
l doin pootry that’d mak ye yawn yer heed aff…..an if ye wer
1 matches