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The word 'yards'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yardsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71915
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 35.5 8 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
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 yards in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Fur talent contests, yards o ale and bonnie babies tae. on page 29

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
A few yards fae my door is this cheery si(2020)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
tan on a bough o a tree a few yards off. on page 60

1 matches

Mid Northern B

Crawford, Jack The Pluffer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ng richt on target fae hunred yards aff. One day I went ta skweel
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
a car number plate at sixty yards awa. Afore the operation he w
truck an, wi a jerk an, fifty yards further alang the road, the d
n rummle o steens aboot fifty yards
yards aff the road an ere's a bit o
4 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
yards fae him. It jist stood there
1 matches

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
hirties. Staunnin ootside the yards wi the gaffer movin alang a l
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
wart_23 He only had tae run 3 yards - fair doos, pit it awah, bu (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
all I hid a thocht aboot kirk yards Why the big dykes roon them o(2020)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e break-ins doon at the canal yards recently. Lot ae damage done. on page 1

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
he east ye cuid smell the oil-yards o Dundee up the river at Pert on page 33

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
kid 26 miles an’ 385 bluidy yards, ye hae tae hae the traininâ€
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
oan a tree branch a couple ae yards away. on page 62

1 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
cted in Deerness in 1888, 300 yards from the spot where the ship

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@LauraKyle93 sm aboot 50 yards frae u and everything is fine(2013)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
For onything but dogged yards, Wi heels dug in; on page 22

1 matches

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