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The word 'japs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
japsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 324.6 7 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 153.7 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of japs in Corpus

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General Northern

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
t he'd been a prisoner wi the Japs so maybe that's why he smiled
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
chtin throu the jungle wi the Japs ahint us.
been dinged doun tae stap the Japs.
hae tae gie masel up tae the Japs,” says Dumfy — his wis cr
He wad dee nae lang efter the Japs catcht us.
, but I kent fine that if the Japs caucht us they’d kill us ba
7 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Col. Fasson wis ae POW wi the Japs i the 1939-46 War i the Fer A
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha japs drapped fae tha trees: on page 16
In a dwam as tha japs plootered doon tae tha babbin on page 50
A mixtur-maxtur o birdsang japs fae tha trees: on page 53

3 matches

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