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The word 'jeck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jeckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6185
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 42.2 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of jeck in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Wur all Jeck Tamsons bairns. on page 83
eenit bit furst wael hear fae Jeck, the county man on the state on page 86

3 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
n somethin comes at me laek a jeck-ida-box, an up I gengs laek a on page 39
cin her. Dan ahint dat cam da Jeck o Herts, kerryin da Keeng's c on page 80
wa in a frimse, an said ta da Jeck, "Turn dem ower!" on page 82
hale pack o cairds forbye: da Jeck wis staandin afore dem, tied on page 109
Da Jeck o Herts, he stöl da tarts on page 111
Also on pages 120, 122
10 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - The Pynes o Luve, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
I hae guid or ill, she's jist jeck-aisy; on page 43

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
s, Somethin come at mae lik a Jeck in the box, an up A went lik on page 39

1 matches

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Jeck an Jill on page 17

3 matches

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