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The word 'yelly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yellyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23 9 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
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)
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 yelly in Corpus

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General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
fir me e’day, waa’shin’ ma yelly garters, a’ keech’d ma draa(2018)
Hud gaen' ye yelly bellied hoors!(2015)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
waws are fucked; they're that yelly, ah'm startin tae hink they'v on page 13
rin me an E. He takes a small yelly tablet fae his jean poacket. on page 79
oon that ah could find in the yelly pages. But, alas, there wis n on page 155
wae rid hair wearin a bright yelly toap wae the Places logo oan on page 159
k shirt which is decorated in yelly flowers. Course, typical ae h on page 167

5 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
an white or yelly, broon or black,
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
The yelly streak is awready developin a
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n he got the baw first m8 - yelly caird lol (2021) twitter link
Jordanhop90 a thocht it wis a yelly lol (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
what brings me tae this pukey yelly painted waitin room. Kennin h
1 matches

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