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The word 'jaikit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jaikitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81612
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 26.6 6 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of jaikit 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

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Ah teen aff ma jaikit and hung it on the row o hook on page 41

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
tick 'em in the oven in their jaikit on page 193

4 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
es Mi'be ye shud o pit a pink jaikit on yer tweet!(2019)

(South) East Central

McFarlane, Ishbel Does Scotland compare weil wi ither places fir wee bairnies?, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
stress oan the fluffy-luggit jaikit that wis, if oniehing, ower-c
’s oot o thon fluffy-luggit jaikit lang syne (91st centile – m
2 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Juist fesh a jaikit on page 46

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
an eh tuke aff meh jaikit on page 63

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 79 - Oot o the Mooths o Weans, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
oose an pit oan her guid blae jaikit, steekit the gairden yet ahen on page 93

1 matches

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
munelicht. And check oot the jaikit. Silk sae fine ye cannae feel on page 63

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
vide is openin up, the Labour jaikit leuks tae be on a gey shoogly
1 matches

@gordimhor1 tweeted
port Maybe somebody stole his jaikit. A brave man given what happe(2019)

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
says Sluvvly. Hid tae take ma jaikit aff(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
eoot packin ony troosers or a jaikit!
1 matches

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