A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'yiss'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yissOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.8226
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 10.9 1 1
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 27.9 21 6
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 yiss in Corpus

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Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
n the wund o opeenian wis nae yiss at praisent. on page 99

1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
'It's nae yiss! A cannae pou his airm oot ai on page 20

1 matches

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ly harmonious research on the yiss o leid, pairt o this passage on page 34
, for serious modren literary yiss. In thon perspective, whit Re on page 36
riety whaur a lively an vital yiss o Scots continued an continue on page 37
a synthesin approach til the yiss o Scots. Bit awready, as Reid on page 39

6 matches

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
tation an encouragement o the yiss o Scots in speech and scrievi on page 3
ducation haes in promotin the yiss o Scots. on page 4
* encourage the increased yiss o Scots as a valid an visible on page 5
weys whilk will encourage the yiss o Scots in developin literacy on page 6

6 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
o weys that the RPS can be o yiss tae wis. on page 16

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
d wis popularised in literary yiss by Sir Walter Scott. Baith gl
ature o Glasgow speech is the yiss and coinin o rhymin slang and
We get a rather mair frequent yiss o the continuous aspect than
3 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
rammatical yon raither pyntit yiss kinna maks oot “Scots” is
Fur example, is forderin the yiss o “Scots language” an for
s language” an forderin the yiss o “the Scots language” th
3 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
ts @d_anderson878 Thir wis in yiss ilka day in the Ayrshire Scot(2020)

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