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The word 'yist'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yistOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4145
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 137.2 11 2
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 yist in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
Keengdom o God tll? It's lik yist att a wumman teuk an mixt wi on page 104

1 matches

General Central

Shepherd, J. Barrie Lallans 82 - Forth Brig, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
We yist tae cam doon tae the 'Ferry on page 28

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
ble wis made wi ginger. There yist tae be a joke aboot a Gers pl(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
say if Ah ken aw th hings Ah yist tae ken. Let's sei: fowr time on page 18
aders, an hed bin o late fair yist tae unsurpation an conquest. on page 25
hae happened tae iz! When Ah yist tae read fairy stories, Ah th on page 34
"But Ah'm no yist tae eet!" pleaded pair Ahlice on page 49
d at this, she was gettin sae yist tae funny hings happenin. Whi on page 63
Also on pages 93, 95, 96, 104
10 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@Linsey_xo Yist ti b yow broony.(2017)

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