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The word 'yee'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yeeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6216
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 52.3 16 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of yee 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.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
a roart doon, "Sum feeshermin yee ar, an yea canna dinaye eit," on page 10
eis five hunner powen cash or yee kin take is tae coort. So thr on page 18
oon abilow en eih houl. Still yee hawing, we kept haulen an thi on page 19
fcit thi broken box's, aw eit yee hid tae dee weis chap oot thi on page 29
d feel an caad me iveree naim yee cood theink o, anneith thi su on page 34
Also on pages 41, 50, 64, 67, 69
16 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Conrad: Yee-ees. Ah'm oan the loose, Bruc on page 40

1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1 Yee scaring me again!!!!(2012)

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
rin doun frae the lift abune! Yee-uch, Serpent!" on page 44

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ecades, geeat poet. Gie Josie yee vote! @MAD_Pipe_Band @Muirkir(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
es though they were. But whan yee gien tha woods a dander at da on page 14

1 matches

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