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The word 'treason'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
treasonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3145
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 63.7 6 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of treason in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
recognised as an act ae class treason. on page 91
CLASS TREASON on page 129
says "You've committed class treason, here. Fuckin big promotion, on page 136

3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
nce o Scots law bi passin the Treason Act o 1709. This statit that on page 17
obs at Westminster passit the Treason Act in1708 that said that oni on page 42
ye ready tae find sedition an treason gin they cuid. An the Jacobit on page 71

5 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
he gallows.' This wis clearly treason an he was haulit afore a meet on page 122

1 matches

General Central

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
ng an government again an wis treason. Aifter that he wis chased ha

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
hat Cameron wis guilty o high treason an pit up a bounty o 5,000 me

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
sentenced tae death fur high treason.

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
a have a link to bloody ane? Treason, ma erse!(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
he'd been clodded in jail for treason. An Ayrshire Laird caaed Hugh
1 matches

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