A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'jest'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jestOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus24.9817
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 2259.6 72 2
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of jest in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
Andra jest babbled like a bairn, takkin on page 84

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
lass, this is nae time for a jest. Gin there wis ever a time fo on page 25
ass, for he had smiled at her jest an wis ta'en wi her honesty a on page 26

2 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
ther - nae hairm, jist a wee jest.' on page 14

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
wer the fiel efter it, an wus Jest in time tae see it gan doon a on page 8
at shae wus dozin aff, an had jest stairtet tae dream that shae on page 10
! An yesterday things went on jest normal. A wunner if A hae bin on page 19
ayin 'Come on up, dote!' A'll jest luk up an say 'Wha am A thin? on page 20
n, twa, three, an awa!"; they jest tuk aff rennin whin they likt on page 27
Also on pages 28, 29, 31, 34, 36, 37, 39, 41, 43, 50, 52, 53, 57, 59, 61, 62, 64, 70, 71, 73, 74, 77, 78, 79, 82, 84, 85, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 103, 106, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 118, 119, 124
65 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Krisamas time is draa’in near, (Ullans Speakers Association 2011) Ulster - Coleraine, prose
esel, an thocht oul Santa wus jest able tae work magic. A shane
1 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Tha demise o oor ain tongue, (North Antrim Speak 2010) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
oon thaur neck. It wull shane jest bae a wye o taakin jest h'ard
bae a wye o taakin jest h'ard behin closed doars an l
lake this an bae left tae dee jest becaase yins wha ir pooer, an
coorse wha am A in thaur een, jest an oul girn wae very little s
o oor ain tongue afore it is jest anither forgotten bit o oor d
5 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Tak pride in yer ain tongue, (North Antrim Speak 2009) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
ge its richtfa place, becaase jest taak a luk at onythin thats d
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Jest watter quails' eldrich caa. on page 15
Jest gie tae me ma Twalfth on page 36

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
lies atween leid an dialect! Jest spake it an dinnae bother abo (2014) twitter link
@barriegadgey Jest fae Amazon: Ulster Books pit (2016) twitter link
r Park's aa tae the yin side: jest like Ballyhalbert! http://t.c (2014) twitter link