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The word 'jot'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jotOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71210
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of jot in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
guy aroond and I dinna care a jot. on page 84

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
drus wye o deein, cares nae a jot aboot yous an me, and schemes (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
that Ah expect he’d care a jot. He wis a real living threat
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
the siller, it maitters no a jot whit nummer o bairns dees; it on page 123

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
alks oan, caring not a bloody jot that ah’m still staunin her
1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah personally, care not a jot for such segregation. Ma ain
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
buikit, aulder an waiker - a Jot quicker nor he shuid for a ma on page 75

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
ble. Sae the geographer micht jot down twa moontains in a place on page 55
'We dinna jot doun flooers, said the geogra on page 56

2 matches

McMillan, Hugh The Return of the Brownie of Blednoch, (no publisher recorded 2022) Central, poetry
an monies the jot or chore that wis cleant
1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
s Aye! WM torys dinnae care a jot aboot weans! Or any folk at a(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
es; "but eet disnae maitter a jot," she thocht tae hersel. on page 117

1 matches

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