A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

jumbo Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 2.1 16 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences144 10 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 3 5

Occurrences of jumbo in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
MUMBO JUMBO on page 16
rds aw jist soundet lik mumbo jumbo tae me an ah wis gettin total on page 17

2 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
rds aw jist soundet lik mumbo jumbo tae me an ah wis gettin total
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
’Wae aw that medical mumbo jumbo, they speak in’’ ah tell
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
onywye - it's a lotta mumbo-jumbo claptrap." on page 38

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
ivery shop imaiginable, an a jumbo pack o 200 will set ye back a
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
1. The Tale o Jessie the Jumbo
nkeys war plottin. Jessie the Jumbo hodged her hurdies an showded
r delicht .Jessie the dauncin Jumbo”.
Jessie the Jumbo thocht hard. “I ken foo tae
fin watter’s scarce, bit a Jumbo can, an my neb disna hae hole
6 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
understood the rest was mumbo jumbo.
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
time so ask wife tae get me a jumbo huddock fae Ashvale & comes b(2016) search twitter

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