- yae, every.
- yare, ready.
- yeats, yetts, gates.
- yestreen, yesterday.
- yird-fast, fixed in the earth.
- yode, went.
- yont, beyond, further off.
- Yule, Christmas.
- ze, zet, zour, &c., ye, yet, your.
Transcriber's Notes
Irregular and inconsistent spellings have been retained as in the original. Typographical errors such as wrongly placed line numbers and punctuation have been corrected without comment. Where changes have been made to the wording these are listed as follows:
Page [10], line 33: added missing opening quotation mark ("But look that ye tell na Gib your man,...)
Page [38], line note 157: reference originally read "177".
Page [55], line 47, 48: added missing quotation marks (Lye yont, lye yont, Willie," she says, / "For your sweat I downa bide O.")
Page [97], line 97: added final comma ("Now haud your tongue, my lord," she said, ...)
Page [118], line 58, 59: removed unnecessary quotation mark ("Get up, and let me in!— / Get up, get up, lady mother," he says, ...)