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The word 'traist'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
traistOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1133
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 12.8 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 2
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 traist in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
“Ye maun traist me. The Unyt Naitiouns is hei
traist a man juist kiz he kent hiz m
traist. He gried ti halp, bot neded
’d. Fur thon, A’m gaun ti traist ye, an prigg yeir halp ti
rtin, sen the K’nicht didna traist onie buddie an he herdit the
5 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
– weill, ye canna trewlins traist thaim, an that’s the fak.â€
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
thwart Harald, bit thae didna traist yin the ither, sae Shaggie He on page 14

6 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
believe’; the adjective ‘traist’ meanin ‘leal, faithfu, t
1 matches

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