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The word 'betrayal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
betrayalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.487
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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 betrayal in Corpus

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Orkney

@HJosephineGiles tweeted
gonnae have to work harder at betrayal if u want tae be a betrayar, (2020)

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
r a good sleep is da greatest betrayal (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Freeman, Rebekah Honesty, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, weans
Betrayal is a toom space,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
n, religion, daith, sex, loss,betrayal an chynge. Fiona is a Glesca
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
it he saw the hale thing as a betrayal. Be her.
1 matches

General Central

White, George Uncle Wull, (Facebook 2024) Central, poetry
Sic a betrayal brocht bitterness
1 matches

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
them aince and it felt like a betrayal. ?? Ashamed o masel.(2018)

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