A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

yerds Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 0 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences42 0 1 0 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of yerds in Corpus

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Central

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Church Street brae an, a few yerds afore the stanchion, lookit u
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
intae the coarner fae twelve yerds oot.
1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Crunchan the stubble twinty yerds away. on page 72

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
the branch o a tree a wheen o yerds awa. on page 62

1 matches

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