A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'jamaican'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jamaicanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9134
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 25.8 10 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 jamaican in Corpus

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Shetland

Williamson, Christie Da Problem o dese Paerts, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Shetland, prose
is D'bi Young Anitafrika's, a Jamaican dub poyit wha wis bidden tae
1 matches

(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
a half years, an ma wife’s Jamaican. We baith came hame tae live
aks me an expert in Scots, in Jamaican Patois, or in the relationshi
han mine, but she also speaks Jamaican Patois, which has Scottish, I
s though. Although every real Jamaican kens Patois, in the main itâ€
English. Along wi elements o Jamaican music, Patois has also been a
10 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
O’ some Jamaican rap,
1 matches

Glasgow

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Jamaican ma heid bile, that's you heav
1 matches

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