A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'yark'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yarkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of yark 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.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ded tae gee thi injin anither yark. An that he did, an fin he ya on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
s if deid, afore his body wad yark an flail like a pouppet wi it
ggees use tae garrot fowk, ae yark cud slit a thrapple as clean'
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ie ruggit the plugs oot wi ae yark o his beak, an set aff wi the
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
yark them oot. Ronald wis like a d
dreel ploo he wid get a yark in the ribs wi the shafts. Jo
horse got a yark in the shooders every time th
3 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
stockins; syne turn’t wi a yark,
1 matches

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