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The word 'jacob'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jacobOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.34915
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 98.8 17 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 163.5 9 1

Occurrences of jacob in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
ikit ta hunt fir animals, bit Jacob joost bed hame aboot. Ta mak on page 11
Later Jacob fan oot fir himsel whit it wi on page 12
Jacob's Boys on page 13

16 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
wi a skipper Jacob Joensen. on page 59

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
s fadder tae Isaac, Isaac tae Jacob, Jacob tae Judah an his brith on page 7
on wi Abraham, wi Isaac an wi Jacob 1 the keengdom o hivven. Bit on page 16
an he'll rowle ower e hoose o Jacob for aa time, an there'll be n on page 80
n o Perez, sin o Judah, sin o Jacob, sin o Isaac, sin o Abraham, on page 85
n ye see Abraham, an Isaac an Jacob an aa e prophits in e Keengdo on page 105
Also on pages 114
9 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
nesis twintyecht, the story o Jacob's laidder:
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
I daurna listen mair! Voilet Jacob https://t.co/QuaJ8c1k6d (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - David, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, poetry
Jacob's laidder, tae his God. on page 13

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
Violet Jacob, J.C. Milne, aa in the auld w
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 83 - Phantasmagoria, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Nae stairpit's built fur Jacob's dwam. on page 70

1 matches

General Central

Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 82 - Holy Corners o Auld Scotia, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
his son Jacob tae a place caa'd Padanaram. on page 56

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
s, Hamish Henderson an Violet Jacob tae name a puckle musicians a on page 57

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
rds o Angus poets like Violet Jacob's Norlan Wind and Helen Cruik on page 77

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
Like the ghaist o Jacob Marley weirin its chynes, weâ
1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
wee video o me singin Violet Jacob's poem The End O't, pit tae m(2020)

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
me I sing it. A gem by Violet Jacob and Jim Reid.(2016)

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
An Jacob's childer, Israel's seed Wi a on page 65
They Jacob ir, that seek his face Wi tha on page 70

2 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
@DebShoes72 Me wif ye as Jacob wud say,innit(2019)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
o Isaac, Isaac tha faither o Jacob, Jacob tha faither o Judah an on page 1
ha boord wi Abraham, Isaac an Jacob ïn tha Kïngdom o Heiven. Bu on page 9
Judah wus tha sinn o Jacob. on page 75
an ye see Abraham an Isaac an Jacob an aa tha proafits ïn tha Kà on page 94
tha God o Isaac, an tha God o Jacob', lang eftèr the' wur aa dee on page 104

9 matches

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