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The word 'treacle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
treacleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12913
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 246.1 7 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 43.4 8 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 5
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of treacle in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
You should taste her treacle scones. on page 1
ed some floory binnacks and a treacle girdle scone on page 13

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
He hid gret treacle wallops aboon peedie black ey on page 90

1 matches

Shetland

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
ing tick, slokkit in pitch an treacle.
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"They lived on treacle," sade e Moosie, efter thinka on page 70
"Treacle," sade e Moosie, withoot thin on page 71
"Treacle," sade a sleepy voice behind on page 110

7 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
cheese an treacle pieces. on page 33

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
"They lived oan treacle," said the Dormoose efter thi on page 72
be there is such a thing as a treacle-well-yjist the wan, anywey." on page 73
"Treacle," said a sleepy voice ahint h on page 113

8 matches

General Central

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
s for toffee yer mither made, treacle wis the best. U was for umbre on page 120

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
r an the windae, wi a claggie treacle scone danglin fae it! Haunds
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ell that wis compostit hey an treacle comin back doun aboot ma heid
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
, we got a piece slaithirt in treacle or condensed milk; than it wi
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ioned wae dookin fir aipples, treacle scones oan a string and the l(2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
out Halloween traditions. The treacle scone wan is new tae me! Onyb(2017)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ioned wae dookin fir aipples, treacle scones oan a string and the l(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
She'd mak me stilts wi treacle tins on page 58

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
said she, "an gae easy on the treacle fur it's tae last!" on page 15

1 matches

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