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The word 'yairn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yairnOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.2339
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 91.9 20 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 98.5 3 2
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of yairn in Corpus

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General Northern

TheChielMeister Ah'm e chiel (sae dinna fash), (youtube.com 2011) Doric, poetry
h thowcht ah'd spin ye ae wee yairn o ma lest wee duander aboot
1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
(There is forby i this yairn the fermer's naig, wha is cry on page 45

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
James A. Begg gies us a guid yairn, at luiks at the fowk’s air
1 matches

@ricky_ballboy tweeted
ppy tae hae a wee speculative yairn in the braid #Scots leid be a (2020) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
co weill-named forby). It's a yairn at cums fu-ceirkil in a pleas on page 5

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
rrel him?). Mebbe the brawest yairn o thaim aw is aboot Scott's m on page 116

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
e Connor gies us a guid short yairn i the mock-heroic fasson; Ste on page 9

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
n' material is the sae-cawed 'Yairn o the Ten Deames' frae Chapte on page 136
guiltie man is hangit, an the yairn winds up in a richt-like wey on page 138
s his mind. Hogg tichtens the yairn whan, towarts its enn, it lui on page 139
in notts gies us anither braw yairn, aboot the ceircumstaunces o on page 140
is an unco-like but ferliefu yairn aboot an evendoun wumman-hate on page 142

7 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
les P. Connor gies us a fykie yairn o the supernaitral, complete on page 7

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
It apens wi a rael camsteirie yairn. The narrator introduces hims
The lave o the yairn is taen up wi a description o
paw til honest wark! Anither yairn ithin the piece shaws us a ma
ret’s Mirror’ is a mukkil yairn, the first sik, atweill, i th
s the supernaitral pert o the yairn. Leddie Forester decides ti i
7 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
by a yairn or chairacter is like nocht e on page 33

1 matches

General Central

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Wir we that young!, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
We didna jalouse fan thi yairn was cut, on page 48

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
raft car-pairk. A wus haein a yairn wi him no sae lang bak, an he on page 8

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
n. She repeated a weel-lairnt yairn in hir heid. "What wud ye thi on page 29
bein equals. "Was there no a yairn aboot the wean forbye?P"' sai on page 55

2 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Collogued wi crack an yairn. on page 10

1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
bit gies a wie tae tell this yairn tae on page 21
h o' Airlan parish tellin the yairn o' Rev. John Livingston, an e on page 46
e o' the UlsterScots leid fer yairn tellin', fer modairn issues, on page 54

3 matches

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