A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

yock Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 0 3 0 29.1 0 4.4
Number of occurrences80 2 0 5 0 1
Number of authors5 1 3 1

Occurrences of yock in Corpus

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Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
It startit wi a nesty yock on page 15

2 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
r haand ageen, an med anidder yock at da air. Dis time dey wir t on page 38

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
wi Joseph, da bridders took a yock o him an pat him in a greff. on page 13
paece.' A muckle fish took a yock o Jonah an pat him back hame. on page 71
day. Wid you no geng an tak a yock o her an poo her oot? Surely on page 101

3 matches

Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
in wi Snurtysleeves tryin tae yock hadd o her pigtails, I took d
1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
If you cud yock tha Man Abane, on page 55

1 matches

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