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Use in varieties of Scots

japs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.5 1.5 0 0 10.3 13.3
Number of occurrences127 1 0 0 1 3
Number of authors4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of japs in Corpus

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Central

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
chtin throu the jungle wi the Japs ahint us.
been dinged doun tae stap the Japs.
hae tae gie masel up tae the Japs,” says Dumfy — his wis cr
He wad dee nae lang efter the Japs catcht us.
, but I kent fine that if the Japs caucht us they’d kill us ba
7 matches

Doric

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
t he'd been a prisoner wi the Japs so maybe that's why he smiled
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Col. Fasson wis ae POW wi the Japs i the 1939-46 War i the Fer A
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha japs drapped fae tha trees: on page 16
In a dwam as tha japs plootered doon tae tha babbin on page 50
A mixtur-maxtur o birdsang japs fae tha trees: on page 53

3 matches

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