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The word 'jonah'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jonahOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10325
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 75.6 13 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 218 12 1

Occurrences of jonah in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Jonah on page 71
dee'd. Jonah wis aafil pitten oot aboot di on page 72

13 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
n att they'll get is e sign o Jonah. Cause jist as Jonah wis a si on page 100

4 matches

Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
d a depairtin fushin boat, a 'Jonah' sum wad say, bit as she wis on page 98

1 matches

General Northern

Skinner, Alison C. Tales Fae The Doric Side - The New Leviathan, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
though it wis Jonah's freen on page 84
Jonah aet his sipper on page 85

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Tha sign o Jonah on page 9
Tha sign o Jonah on page 90

12 matches

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