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The word 'yanks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yanksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9138
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 74.3 7 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of yanks in Corpus

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General Northern

Christie, Hilary Lallans 78 - Ma Freens in Chains, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, poetry
An the Yanks refine sae weel. on page 74

1 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
e wiz in america. Kane fit at yanks are like. Joris voorn at awak(2013)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
obsessit wi sookin up tae the Yanks that they hae succumbed tae t on page 56
different sets o fowk - the Yanks an the Saudi Arabians. The gr on page 116
e Saudis... weel, jist as the Yanks represent their lost pouer, s on page 117

6 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
dinna whant ti talk like thi Yanks on page 118

1 matches

Edinburgh

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
an we got talkin. Like aa the Yanks he'd plenty dough, widnae let on page 136

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
hrough there!’ he spits, an yanks it open again.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
d end wi the Roushians an the Yanks blawin the warld tae smithere on page 23

1 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Yin for the yanks https://t.co/0r9WjrPNtZ(2020)