A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'jumbo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jumboOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3148
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of jumbo in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
onywye - it's a lotta mumbo-jumbo claptrap." on page 38

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
1. The Tale o Jessie the Jumbo
nkeys war plottin. Jessie the Jumbo hodged her hurdies an showded
r delicht .Jessie the dauncin Jumbo”.
Jessie the Jumbo thocht hard. “I ken foo tae
fin watter’s scarce, bit a Jumbo can, an my neb disna hae hole
6 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
ivery shop imaiginable, an a jumbo pack o 200 will set ye back a
1 matches

General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
understood the rest was mumbo jumbo.
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
time so ask wife tae get me a jumbo huddock fae Ashvale & comes b(2016)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
MUMBO JUMBO on page 16
rds aw jist soundet lik mumbo jumbo tae me an ah wis gettin total on page 17

2 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
rds aw jist soundet lik mumbo jumbo tae me an ah wis gettin total
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
’Wae aw that medical mumbo jumbo, they speak in’’ ah tell
1 matches

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