A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

yirdy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 0.5 7.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences61 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of yirdy in Corpus

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Central

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
Then out the warld’s yirdy wame
1 matches

Doric

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
jaiket and bunnet in tae the yirdy tam. I wis fair dumfoonered. on page 124

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
caunle lay fizzled oot on the yirdy fleer. It wis dry, an secret,
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
be her frien. She trailed her yirdy trotters doon tae the puil fa
wyty buits an mochy oxters an yirdy teeth... bi nae Plinky. Fin t
, there’s nae been a single yirdy Plong in the hale o the plane
3 matches

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