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The word 'jerries'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jerriesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.793
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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)
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 jerries in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
n they waakit intae a squad o Jerries at work sortin some trench wo
broo tae gweed effect and the Jerries didna staan a chance. Flares
per. His big broo wiz tae the Jerries like claiggs tae horse shite
ners fin he noticed een o the Jerries weerin een. An idea came tae
The Jerries meanwhile saa fae their persp
5 matches

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
econd he thocht they micht be Jerries.They were gye grim faced and
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
the ocean. But of coorse the Jerries dinna like oor cruises at aa on page 44
he police - only ti find the Jerries had deen a richt graan job th on page 45

2 matches

General Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ckit men aroun the back o the Jerries an we'll wipe them oot wi a p on page 65

1 matches

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