Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'yaist'

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Use in varieties of Scots

yaist	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.5	21	4
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	43.1	17	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.8	2	1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of yaist in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
oos-lug ta be wi thaim! Harry yaist ta be sae
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
he Guid Book tells us, bit Ah yaist tae keek sometimes at aw they on page 10
r because that's whit they're yaist tae. Weel, whan ye watch them on page 13
ony witches these days, there yaist tae be mind, oh aye, they yai on page 14
Noo, Jeanie, she yaist tae be a proper fisher lassie on page 18
as weel, tho' ma guid-mither yaist tae say there wis a bit o' ti on page 27
Also on pages 28, 31, 32, 38
15 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
yur nae gid tae nae cunt. Git yaist tae it because it's only goan on page 15
ince wuv jist started tae git yaist tae each other. Ah've even li on page 156

2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
though, eh? He’s jist goat yaist tae walkin again’’
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
and stoppin ye roamin lik ye yaist tae dae—yin ae the “great
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
a patch on the yins Oor Libby yaist tae bake et Sloans!).
1 matches