Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'yay'

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Use in varieties of Scots

yay	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.8	6	5
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	3.9	3	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.9	2	2
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 yay in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
@ukulemae Yay! Good tae hear ??(2021)

General Central

@iainnicol tweeted
@dtammcd Yay! Thanks for clarifying. Easy (2020)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
@KnitBikeNom @turlygod Yay! A braw Venn Diagram tae fin (2019)
@jessicafostekew @stefsmith yay for Idil Sukan!(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
phone, and A mouth ‘Sah-Rah-Yay -Vo?’ et him like he’s the
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@StuartPoet tweeted
@iseult @MagiGibson Yay, ta loads pal x (2020) twitter link