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The word 'jaa'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jaaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.93313
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 42 4 3
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
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) 606.7 17 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of jaa in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
aid da boy, "an ower waek ida jaa on page 49

2 matches

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
it’s grippit wir editor. My jaa drappit when he offered me an
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
sukkert feet, o an octipises jaa. on page 27

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an is face an the set . 0''is jaa at he'd hid aa at he cud thol on page 37
Ronnie's jaa drappit fin he saa the terrif on page 56

2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
s face turnt bricht reid. His jaa drapped an his een opened wid on page 56

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
Farquhar wis unstoppable. His jaa wis set an he widna let up. ' on page 44

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 57 - Mac, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Doric, prose
l himsel aat time wis gie his jaa a bit scart on a dyke. on page 27

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
he patchy bum fluff across ma jaa. This morning, I decided tae
1 matches

Edinburgh

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Hand raisit til his jaa, on page 98

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
his jaa gaes ticht on page 14

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
strenth, that it gien tae mae jaa on page 48

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
she stared an she ferlied its jaa gied a jerk, on page 11
Tha Jaa Banes on page 13
back wi him, an he put aa tha jaa banes intae it. He taen it ha on page 14
Tha Jaa Banes on page 15
Fae some puir cratur's jaa! on page 19
Also on pages 20, 22, 24
17 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
d dry Ma tongue sticks tae ma jaa. on page 65

1 matches

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