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The word 'jamaica'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jamaicaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.5247
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 46 18 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 jamaica in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
example o da first een wid be Jamaica, at's seen hit's naiteral res on page 9

1 matches

General Northern

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
a cousin's grandfolk came fae Jamaica an wid hae been descentants o on page 57

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
day afore, you’d went intae Jamaica wi yer grandma tae see the wa
1 matches

(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
wer o language in Scotland an Jamaica. Ah try tae no get too involv
’m a Fifer, but Ah lived in Jamaica for aboot three an a half yea
tae her hairt. When Ah wis in Jamaica, Ah’d often hear someone on
in the way chattin Patois in Jamaica an spraffin Scots in Scotland
the divisions that persist in Jamaica. An although the majority o S
18 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Burns, bound fir Jamaica, near caa'd it quits, on page 144

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
d ootside a decrepit door oan Jamaica Street. on page 55

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South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
, ports fortified with strong Jamaica rum, on page 50

1 matches

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