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The word 'yarn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
yarnOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus165323
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 63.9 11 6
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 94.2 3 2
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 232.6 4 2
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 178.4 5 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 511.8 18 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of yarn in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
A yarn wi Clouston is the very thing on page 39

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
weaves homespun yarn in an oot tae fill the hole on page 117

1 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
I mind on a yarn me mither’s brither telt
1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
dunna set at wi dir oo or dir yarn bit even da best o kings - S on page 95

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
i used ta veesit him an hae a yarn fae time ta time an help him on page 14

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
night wi twartree cans, fur a yarn, an he wis aye blyde ta see d on page 4
Slowly at first, we began ta yarn, an dan da eftirnune just fle on page 49

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
a bed an maet, a dram, a göd yarn. on page 34

1 matches

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
tae da shop, hed a lichtsome yarn, got da mell an saat, an head
1 matches

Isbister, Sonny Caves aroond Shetland, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
Efter a peerie yarn, da trow said ‘Follow me!
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Birsie’s Brunt Bed, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
irsie aften comes alang for a yarn an a peerie coarn tae aet. We
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
per,” said Pepper. We hed a yarn an he seemed a fine sowel.
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
lippit on wir hill an I hed a yarn wi him dastreen. He’s looki
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
a gant an purled wi a piece o yarn hingin fae his sleeve.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
weih steem't en aw thi slaak yarn, an Skim startet petten strai on page 57

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Corn, lint an yarn
1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
An tummelt doun ma maiden yarn yince mair on page 59

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The kenspeckle yarn haes been re-imagined intae t
1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Mibbe its shan to yarn on about Evans for ages n the
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An tummelt doun ma maiden yarn yince mair on page 44

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Sae gin ye believe ma oul yarn ye'll alloo on page 23

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
ir's time tae stap an' spin a yarn, on page 16

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
e a pooerfu guid openin fur a yarn. Alice answert brev an baakwa on page 43
t an eager wi monie a strange yarn, perhaps even wi the dream o on page 125

2 matches

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
He, an for the purposes o oor yarn the day we'll call him a he, on page 44

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
Ye sleekit elf." Wi that his yarn o life went lame, Frae Beatti on page 59

3 matches

Campbell, Robert Yarns 3 - Brae / Sheugh / Cannae / Piece, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, poetry
Nir spin aa yarn
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
skey, aiblins he'll tell ye a yarn or twa aboot tha oul place. A on page 8
ldrich banes wull nyitter and yarn on page 22

4 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
tannin fur a smoke an haein a yarn. on page 3

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Untitled, (twitter 2021) Ulster - Larne, poetry
scle ah was niver stuck for a yarn frae folk at the front deur a
1 matches

General Ulster

Hanna, Wendy Gaitherin’ Purdas!, (Facebook - Schomberg Society 2020) Ulster, poetry
Fading sun, a yarn to tell,
1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
ons: Armstrong gied thon moon yarn in braid Ulster Scots.. http: (2015) twitter link
f you're doonby: aye up for a yarn in the aul Ulster Scots! Aa t (2014) twitter link
nder doon on #Halloween he'll yarn tae you (in braid #UlsterScot (2014) twitter link
oice" (an a guid #UlsterScots yarn). https://t.co/V4l7W24y1F (2016) twitter link
w saison: an aul #UlsterScots yarn that thon eejit Adam thoucht (2014) twitter link
and 12 other occurrences.

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