A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'yr'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yrOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.176
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
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 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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 yr in Corpus

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Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
or two yarning wi a lovely 90+yr old woman fae Yell.

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
od platter ?? Found in a 6000 yr old midden today. Gets da ima(2016)
rm forecast for #Shetland, – yr.no http://t.co/jneuNEDVnp(2013)

General Northern

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
er an aa. Ah'll translate fur yr. Ih chiel's an OrraLoon fa ge (2022) twitter link

@72redz1903 tweeted
aria This has just blown my 8 yr old’s mind, but makes perfec (2022) twitter link

General Central

@fairpechtoot tweeted
, 1996. Half of Scotland's 16 yr olds completed their RPR oan (2019)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ght wi ma pal Mr Ellsworth 30 yr ago... His wife wis pregnant (2022) twitter link