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Use in varieties of Scots

yid Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words26.5 0.5 7.5 9.9 0 816.6 0
Number of occurrences861 5 1 0 79 0
Number of authors7 1 4 1 1

Occurrences of yid in Corpus

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Central

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

Doric

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) search twitter
e happens up there at nichts. Yid mak a fortune!(2020) search twitter

@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) search twitter

Orkney

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

1 matches

Southern

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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