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The word 'yid'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yidOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus26.8867
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
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 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 985.7 79 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)
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 yid in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Aalwis at the busiest times yid turn roond on page 22

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Mitchell, Kiera Fit why nae?, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
"Dee fit yi wint, bit yid be better bidin" she says
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ces started at Mr Gs. At wye, yid get a butterie, taxi and hame(2020)
e happens up there at nichts. Yid mak a fortune!(2020)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
omebody else’s ‘community’ yid ken aboot it. Takin a 24 bus (2020) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
iz jist on NAT. Fa'd o thocht yid hear it twa days in a row!(2012)

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Good shootin’ soldier, yid’ve humped me the day,’ he
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
cher it Hawick Hie Schuil, an Yid Nichol, i Yid’s hoose it De
Nichol, i Yid’s hoose it Deanburnhaugh, R
Ay, Yid’s still tae the fore up it
orth’ick Waitter. Ay, yince Yid gits his pipe kinnilt, tharâ€
ers (sei A, pages 147 / 153). Yid Tamson, ain o Wattie’s gran
78 matches

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