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The word 'priceless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pricelessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.7317
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 69.1 27 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
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 priceless in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Nae cost, aats priceless! https://t.co/9Dpz39cvHt(2017)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ed mental blueprint ae aw its priceless paintings and their locations on page 169

1 matches

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
red doon insteid, sailin like priceless silk loosed intae the mirkeni
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n doon awe ower the place - priceless ! (2020) twitter link
@ajmc1066 that point is priceless alan - still cannae believe (2021) twitter link
y n the flak still goes on - priceless (2020) twitter link
aw nerve have aye lol - your priceless - bit touchy oan the kelty s (2021) twitter link
aye hees still at it - its priceless - its amazing some of the st (2020) twitter link
and 20 other occurrences.

West Central

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
judgemental glares fae their priceless frames. The odd wee giggles a
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Thon priceless peg yer coat wis hung,
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
all, a card tae encourage all priceless in ma books! xxx(2015)