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The word 'yerd'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yerdOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6129
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 2 2
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of yerd in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
wae your antics as king o the yerd on page 144

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
A yerd filled wae tapered scroos, ha on page 95

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
He nippit trowe yerd-daeks fur a bit o juicy rhuba on page 18

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Dad skoomed wis fae da yerd on page 26

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
used clamour ae the busy ferm-yerd-while the lowin ae the cattle on page 123

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
carriage clattered intae the yerd at the storm's height. My mit on page 3

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
rs, a swine squeals atour the yerd trotters clicking on corbled on page 59

2 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
used clamour o the busy fairm-yerd whiles the lowin o the kye in on page 125

1 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Tak pride in yer ain tongue, (North Antrim Speak 2009) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
sroom an Ullans in tha schuil yerd ? Tha media as weel hae a pai
1 matches

General Ulster

Mc Donnell, John Joogins, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, prose
n tha breedman arrived in tha yerd an shae rin oot ...shae cum b
1 matches

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