Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'jaist'

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Use in varieties of Scots

jaist	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	16.5	53	6
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)	163.5	1	1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)	883.4	10	2
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)	512.3	10	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)	65.7	2	1
GUL - General Ulster	421.7	30	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of jaist 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.

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
Ye may jaist thole tae its better. Thi(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Drapped, hingin jaist, an he come roon, then, on page 11
'Ye jaist had tae aks!'' on page 13
Rin ower it jaist yince mair. Weel daen! on page 34
y conthrairy hoors theirsels. Jaist dhrappin the name'll gar them on page 49
An a the men an weemen's jaist ectthers: on page 51

7 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Jaist waitin fur tha morra. on page 18
Thon waal still there bot jaist na seen, on page 35
This beece wais jaist a leeven thing. on page 47

3 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ween tha trams (A dinnae mine jaist hoo) on page 5
An gin ye cannae get a taxi, jaist ye dannér hame yer lane. on page 6
Hugh's brither John leeved jaist a wheen o yairds awa frae tha on page 8
Jaist afore dayligan, in Septemmer. on page 10
leeved oot at Loughriescouse, jaist ootside Newton. He had bin bo on page 15
Also on pages 16, 17, 19, 22, 31
10 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
wattérs aye aboot Fur tides jaist rap, on page 25
But ithers thocht, jaist wait an see, on page 46

2 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
yin an gie it a gae, or mebbe jaist pick a poame an hae a read. O on page 1
ae nonsense an complainin and jaist loved me oniewye plus she's g on page 2
Me Da jaist shuk his heid an said "A said on page 10
rew it in the bin, weel me Da jaist simply wudnae. on page 11
An jaist like thon the air is fillt, on page 13
Also on pages 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 31, 32, 33, 36, 39, 41, 42, 45, 47, 48, 50, 53, 56, 57
30 matches