Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

jerk	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.8	3.1	3	0	0	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	9	6	2	0	0	0	1
Number of authors	7	4	2				1

Occurrences of jerk in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
is heid fell forrit an gied a jerk that woke him juist eneuch ta on page 74

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
rassed. Stap-motion the caurs jerk discontinuously past, an on t
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ar him come back to Thee wi a jerk that he'll no forget the lang
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
leg o a grumphie, and keeping jerk-jerkin him back, you can wile
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
—Go jerk yeself oaf, ye doss cunt! he
, always jist right tae th’ jerk oaf. Ah cannae imagine him gi
2 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
truck an, wi a jerk an, fifty yards further alang
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@72redz1903 tweeted
@jay_mfc Knee jerk tae Doncasters ridiculous s (2022) twitter link

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
an she ferlied its jaa gied a jerk, on page 11

1 matches