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The word 'yawn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yawnOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9136
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.1 7 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) 605.7 1 1
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 yawn in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

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

General Northern

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
inks heÂ’s an opinion former. Yawn, jog on ye radge, Scotland di(2019)

(South) East 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

@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

Edinburgh

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

General Central

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

Donegal (East Donegal)

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

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