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The word 'jis'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jisOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.7385
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 104.6 32 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
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)
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)

Occurrences of jis in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
jis nae richt :-((2014)
Dinnae ye jis hate it fin ye are deein safe(2014)
t nae ae on Come Dine With Me jis nae pop open a jar i' Ragu sa(2014)
Dinnae ye jis hate it fin she has cheesecak(2015)
ye revert back tae English or jis crack on an think braw luck i(2015)
and 27 other occurrences.

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Jis disappear oot 0' existance. on page 11
The scythes jis cuttin the odd dockin on page 29

2 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
MOIRA: Nah, it's no. It's jis hibernatin. on page 59
'd hiv tae really burn it, no jis blacken it like ye did wi the on page 62

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
said Alice tae hersel, "in ma jis disappearin awthegither, like on page 13

1 matches

General Central

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
ae hae ma thurd cuppy coaffe. Jis wee cups, no big mugs ??????(2020)