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The word 'yorlin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yorlinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3146
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 yorlin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
They nivver hear the yorlin's sang nor see e flax in bloo on page 37

1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
cov the yella yitey, yaldie, yorlin, yellowhammer. 'They've nivve (2020) twitter link
ee yella yite an aa! (yaldie, yorlin, Scots canary). Fit div ye cr (2021) twitter link

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
Ye're the yorlin on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
covering a whittret raiding a yorlin’s nest. Sannie grabbed Jim
1 matches

General Central

Briggs, Susi My Yellow Yorlin, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
et me touch yer yellow yellow yorlin.”
o dae I save my yellow yellow yorlin?
he stealin o my yellow yellow yorlin
s clawin fer my yellow yellow yorlin
the giftin o my yellow yellow yorlin
5 matches

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
er cam in fine, filled wi the yorlin’s sang. Whaniver she heard
tae her lips. O aa birds, the yorlin seemed tae cast a spell ower
2 matches

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