A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'yird-fowk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yird-fowkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.241
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 yird-fowk in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
turs, wha were taen up wi the Yird-fowk fur halie an releegious rizze
ik weel fur the Yird tho. The Yird-fowk hid brunt an ondang an mangli
! They jaloused that the auld Yird-fowk cud screive an spikk – bit
s' fedders an heid. The early Yird-fowk maun hae ettled real sair tae
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