A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

johns Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 1 9 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences102 6 1 0 0 1
Number of authors7 2 3 1 1

Occurrences of johns in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n tae lit yae step inside. St Johns Academy wis cawed. Nae doot y on page 68

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
Wilson an Matthew Fitt in St Johns Undercroft.
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Strathbogie Y.EC. Like chape johns at the barras they Made selli on page 15

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
case ye're winnerin, mi lang johns are green an aa!" on page 90

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ae dig oot the thermals, lang johns & wooly bunnet the keep warm (2017) search twitter
ard & an auld pair of ma long johns fit I’ve nae seen fer years!(2017) search twitter
I get there. 2 pairs o’lang johns on and simmet en’a! Few muck(2018) search twitter
ck the wig aff & hae yer lang johns on & jist s(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Tae see a pair o long Johns wi her goonie on the line. on page 47

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
It's yin o tha Jilly-Johns fae France! https://t.co/SfBW (2019) twitter link