A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word '-y'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
-yOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.862
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 12.2 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 -y in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
'Y-y-you twa?' she said. on page 44

1 matches

General Northern

@glenlivetloon tweeted
s! Weel, nae in Portobello ony-y!(2015)

West Central

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
au losol-ware tulip mackintosh-y servan-dish
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Ay-y-y,” sayed the engineer, slawl
“Ay-y-y,” she sayed slawly, “an n
2 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
n! Pray for her when I am pray-y (nae often of late). Than you(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
make it on time. So A dae a U-y, slither through the shufflin
1 matches

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