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The word 'yaes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yaesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3173
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
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) 981 6 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 282.5 9 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of yaes in Corpus

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West Central

@annieones tweeted
ae notice that cause us Scots yaes thait wee word wee, fair tae (2021) twitter link

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Whin yaes tak' aboot Bambrick, Blanchfl on page 2
Yaes caen drink at yir Powers till on page 29

6 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ore, niver! An A hae tae tell yaes it's gye bad, it is, boy!" on page 21
, gowlt oot, "Sit doon, aal o yaes, an listen tae mae! A'll shan on page 25
ely. "Richt," said the Dodo. "Yaes hae aal won, an yaes'll hae t on page 27
on, weeyins! It's aboot time yaes wur aal in bed!" Fur differen on page 32
hauns, hoo come A cannae see yaes?" Shae wus movin thim aboot w on page 51
Also on pages 78, 94
9 matches

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
“Then nane o yaes'll bae aitin the
1 matches

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