A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'treasured'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
treasuredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of treasured in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Treasured books bi GMB on page 43

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
silver, laek wir een. Dey wir treasured possessions an aften wir orna
1 matches

(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
cious. It’s somethin tae be treasured. If it’s ‘wrong’ or ‘
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ie n auld chaz - a fotae 2 b treasured lol (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 73 - Wrack, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
ma treasured hert, laid oot. The ootlines on page 77

1 matches

Havery, Hannah The Gaithering, (Literature Alliance Scotland 2022) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Stories so treasured, we store them
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Auld Hawick steadfast a treasured jewel on page 26
That treasured thought, it never dies on page 47

2 matches

General Ulster

@Rosehill_girl tweeted
ing these gloriously worn and treasured words nearhan! (2020) twitter link