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The word 'johns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
johnsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of johns in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Tae see a pair o long Johns wi her goonie on the line. on page 47

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Strathbogie Y.EC. Like chape johns at the barras they Made selli on page 15

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
case ye're winnerin, mi lang johns are green an aa!" on page 90

1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ae dig oot the thermals, lang johns & wooly bunnet the keep warm (2017)
ard & an auld pair of ma long johns fit I’ve nae seen fer years!(2017)
I get there. 2 pairs o’lang johns on and simmet en’a! Few muck(2018)
ck the wig aff & hae yer lang johns on & jist s(2018)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n tae lit yae step inside. St Johns Academy wis cawed. Nae doot y on page 68

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
Wilson an Matthew Fitt in St Johns Undercroft.
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
It's yin o tha Jilly-Johns fae France! https://t.co/SfBW (2019) twitter link