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The word 'jerk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jerkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of jerk 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.

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
truck an, wi a jerk an, fifty yards further alang
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
@jay_mfc Knee jerk tae Doncaster’s ridiculous s (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ar him come back to Thee wi a jerk that he'll no forget the lang
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
leg o a grumphie, and keeping jerk-jerkin him back, you can wile
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
rassed. Stap-motion the caurs jerk discontinuously past, an on t
1 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
—Go jerk yeself oaf, ye doss cunt! he
, always jist right tae th’ jerk oaf. Ah cannae imagine him gi
2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
is heid fell forrit an gied a jerk that woke him juist eneuch ta on page 74

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
an she ferlied its jaa gied a jerk, on page 11

1 matches

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