A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

jobby Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 2.6 7.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences115 5 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of jobby in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
A gemme that some them, like Jobby-heid Cameron, Torn-puss Osbor on page 54

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
oan, she said, Big Jamie The Jobby Jabber. on page 98

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
: Vulva the Dragon) and ‘Mr Jobby’ the handyman (in Scotland:
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@SaorAlba59 Bon Jobby(2020) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
'I cuttit a buss o jobby gorse and stappit it up aneth on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
t, an dowpit doon in the roch jobby stibble o the sheared park, a
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
irdich Wid, dreepit her green jobby branches doon tae
hey na gaed “BANG” on its jobby leaves. The gowd
jobby, wi whin busses an orrals o a
3 matches

Orkney

@HJosephineGiles tweeted
??GOOGLY?? EYES ??ON ??THE ??JOBBY (2021) twitter link