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The word 'yees'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yeesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.7486
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 133.3 29 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 72.8 16 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of yees in Corpus

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
yees baith endet up on the flair. on page 31
up tae half time an a noticed yees wur gettin gubbed. Nah nah, s on page 35
fae his work early. Whit huv yees been daein aw day, he said, D on page 41
rinkin palaver an that's whit yees'll aw be daein. Ah'll tell yi on page 60
Ah says, Yees are no funny gaunnae sumdy op on page 63
Also on pages 72, 74, 75, 78, 87, 90, 106, 116, 131, 137, 142, 148, 169
28 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
ma ma an da an Karen. How’d yees no jist talk, said Clicky. Wh
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
the auld devil's dandruff aff yees anaw.' on page 11

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'Mate, believe wit yees want, but ma big bro's been r on page 10
'Fuckin proud ae yees, wee team, yees done well; Bi on page 22
r mate wis gittin set aboot n yees stood n done fuck all' Both a on page 29
end! Dain they weights as if yees ir Scotland's strongest men! on page 30
'Aye, well nice tae meet yees again, by the way. on page 31
Also on pages 48, 57
13 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Aw they years, yees made a cunt ay me, we'll see. on page 3

2 matches

General Central

@raiphsays tweeted
Chrissiem18 Aye! A widnae let yees doon!(2020)
@trangpang A widnae let yees doon!(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Untitled, (twitter 2021) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Happy Easter tae ivery yin o yees.
1 matches

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