A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

janny Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 9.3 9 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2418 6 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of janny in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
the red flash ae the Big Fat Janny's jumper like a fire engine h on page 46

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
o made ony better bi the auld janny aye keekin in on them in case on page 65

6 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
"Awa an get the Janny, son." Cherlie telt him. Ian on page 95
gang doun tae get a shottie o Janny Broon's kettle an hae a wee w on page 98

6 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
A Wycelike Janny
seen postit on the door o the janny's office in the South Bridge
nburgh. It wis written bi the janny hissel an sent in bi Heather
The Janny
4 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ard English but spoke tae the janny and cleaners in Scots (which (2020) search twitter

Doric

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
le. That wiz until ae day the janny and thes young teacher came i
nything else in the room. The janny wint tae a wee door an opened
ed for plays an sic like? The janny tellt ma faar tae look so I c
er. Michty me fitna find! The janny lookit in an shouted if I wiz
bunting oot an atween me, the janny an the teacher we managed tae
6 matches

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