A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'yeer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yeerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.7285
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 68.7 21 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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 2
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 yeer in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
n weis blawed up, twa or thri yeer's aifter, eit teen 3 differen on page 5
er job eit ma da did ower thi yeer's apairt fae beein a Pinter t on page 7
op tae aat. Aye spoke tae Jim yeer's aifter aboot aat, an telt e on page 12
ket thi spray fur twa or thri yeer, An she servit eis weel. She on page 19
een. "Outch," hee say's, "Bit yeer ower lait, cus eih bait's aw on page 27
Also on pages 30, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 47, 59, 60, 61, 65
21 matches

General Northern

Templeton, Sheila Tales Fae The Doric Side - La Bella Rebelle, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Jist twa an twinty yeer auld, fan ye raised on page 62

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
cey al hae tae go noo eer oot yeer depth - b oan ma freend lol (2020) twitter link

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
t tae win the Chorus Cup this yeer (for when it's a laid oot, I (2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
uvs it! A youshly go 3 time a yeer an see a noo yeer in er!(2020)
join in ma wan? A dae it evy yeer noo an its a wee laff tae rea(2020)
fur efter chrismas froo a noo yeer an a wis so lookin fowert tae(2020)