A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ahint

The word 'jocky'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jockyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.3276
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 55.6 17 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 jocky 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

Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ine craiter an so wiz her man Jocky. He’d been the gravedigger
at the back o the hoosie faar Jocky grew aa kinds o berries an ve
les an sic like. By this time Jocky wiz gettin on a bittie an wis
Ackers wiz a lot younger than Jocky and hid teen ower his job fin
ower for the neist year. Aal Jocky helpit faar he could an brunt
16 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ce. Fit wis it Lumphanan '86? Jocky fae Kennethmont teen yir croo(2019)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
It's based on a novel by Jocky Reever on page 112

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Foxiola @AndyMc1867 wee jocky - memories! (2021) twitter link
ve watchin eric b against wee jocky w - top drawer darts n 2 gre (2021) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
im ir cryit til the dale, but Jocky o Millburn isna thare, sugges on page 140

4 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
that James Kelly is proposing Jocky Wilson to be the next Labour (2020)