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Use in varieties of Scots

joker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2.1 4.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences84 3 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 4 2 1

Occurrences of joker in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ear tae ear as if he wis the joker fae Batman and he laughs oaff on page 44

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An innocently daels her Joker caird, on page 12

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ris that the faither wis some joker called Jack Riley. A executiv
1 matches

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Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
en up, Baggy say's "Fit's eih joker up tel?" Fyle theinken, we th on page 11

2 matches

Uri, Antonia Widney’s Fuil, (Mak Forrit 2017) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
amie Fleeman played wisna the Joker, but raither something mair c
1 matches

Southern

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
An innocently daels her Joker caird, on page 219

1 matches

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