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Use in varieties of Scots

yun Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words56.2 11.3 0 0 918.4 0 0
Number of occurrences18022 0 0 158 0 0
Number of authors18 1 17

Occurrences of yun in Corpus

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Central

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
teen, Bill guessed. Twins, Wu-Yun an Bai-Yun. The engineer spak
an Bai-Yun. The engineer spake tae Bill
ventually recognise him as Wu-Yun, the mair talkative twin - p
ye ken better, convick?” Wu-Yun challenged him.
Wu-Yun hesitatit whedder tae dae Bil
22 matches

Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Smooriken, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Shetland, prose
e mooth wis da faint traess o yun mint lip balm at du ay wore - on page 52

1 matches

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
De sea widna hae her. No lik yun: sweet-daed, cenless, lookin on page 32

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
nivver mairried eddir. Julie, yun hippie lass at cam ta bide i on page 1
er, jewel," shü said, "I ken yun kind ower weel, dey'll lay de on page 2
ay. Dat wis up tae da time at yun young lass did whatever it wi on page 5
a wark whin he wins awa among yun boannie young lasses," Jeemie on page 6
Onywye yun tree wrocht awa, an managed t on page 8
Also on pages 9, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 19, 24, 27, 31, 32, 35, 37, 43, 46, 47, 49, 52, 53, 58, 62, 63, 64, 72, 73, 74, 75
52 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Yun en o Him itida bow oda boat on page 27

2 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
"Bit I canna gaeng among aa yun posh fock cled laek dis!" on page 35

5 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
aedna wun tae dis plaesses at yun time. on page 13
aareidy bidin in Shetland at yun time. Very little is left o d on page 15
e gied an swappit jüst een o yun soonds, laek swappin da hindm on page 22
de'r onli a peerie twartree o yun kind o wirds idda class. on page 51
on, laek See dis!, Is du seen yun?, an sic laek. Shaetlan haes on page 58
Also on pages 60, 63, 64, 67, 77, 90, 103, 106
23 matches

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
Da boat wis aafil peerie fur yun waters, jöst kinda driftin w
A week efter yun, we were steamin intae da pie
2 matches

Sinclair, James Yarnin, (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
an du sees yun big baa oot by da point
yes, yunder, whaar yun muckle sea is brakkin.
Du sees yun noosts set up abune da beach.
3 matches

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
“Richt dan, yun’s me, awa tae da shop, is d
1 matches

Irvine, Chloe Untitled Poem, (The Scotsman 2021) Shetland - Whalsay, poetry
But yun arrogant smeegin is brally ï
1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
In yun sam ‘Nippy Sweetie’ artic
1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2017) Shetland
Yun's aa I can tink o' für eenoo

Nicholson, Hannah Da Wye At I Spaek, (self-published 2021) Shetland - Brae, poetry
Tae yun sam end, ivry tongue
Den be yun logic, so too is Swedish
2 matches

Nicholson, Hannah Samhain - Usher in the Dark - Minni-Babbi, (Leopard Arts 2021) Shetland, prose
da uncan ship at cheenged aa yun.
tae mesel, we canna be haein yun. So back intae me hoose I gui
er da watter at lang last. Wi yun, I made me wye back inside, a
3 matches

Sinclair, James Murmansk, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Shetland, poetry
Dey sailed itill yun frozen waaters i da Barents S
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
witnessed me tryin ta reverse yun thing in Lerook dis eftirnoon (2020) twitter link

@tattooedselkie tweeted
Think yun's me hit the 100 new follower(2021) search twitter
een afore usin it fir dis so yun's only 3.5 months. https://t.(2021) search twitter
o bad I find, but I'm only up yun wye in the day time!(2021) search twitter
s a Fridee - winder whit wye yun could be?(2021) search twitter
@molach95 @tristangrayedi Yun's aboot as polite as I feel l(2021) search twitter
and 34 other occurrences.

@HazelTindall tweeted
@_woolwork I wiz no heard yun.(2020) search twitter
raBears @ShetlandWoolWk Blyde yun een is no been cut up!(2020) search twitter

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
It's yun kindo a night dat maks you wa(2015) search twitter
@docsuzy So een o yun even rarer days whaur Da Ness(2020) search twitter
reindeer'll hae nae budder wi yun peerie breeze. Long term fore(2013) search twitter
@DavidPolson13 I need to try yun! I imagine it lik a creamola (2018) search twitter
peerie nuggets o history lik yun.(2020) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
@edbookfest Yun's me back to Shetland this ev(2019) search twitter
hillock, in case du dusna hae yun wird by dee) - - but I'm no i(2020) search twitter
n aboot blate meanin shy tho, yun's a göd een(2019) search twitter
sh! And patti = swine :) LOVE yun image of someen gettin a gluf(2020) search twitter
????”Whit in God’s name wis yun?!” “Oh... dat’ll be de bog(2019) search twitter
and 2 other occurrences.

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@johnneh Ooooh which wan is yun?? (2018) twitter link
@itsJuliaHardy What films yun? (2018) twitter link

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