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The word 'treuth'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
treuthOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of treuth in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
eusik o the poiïtree rings o treuth. (Mor, A doot, as mee aen rit
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
the veracity o their luve: as treuth sall try my pairt (compare po
airt (compare poem 49 ‘That treuth sall try, sa far above’).
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Hei spak the treuth, bot hei didna tell hir thit
treuth n’, A mynd on the Tait faim
yonder, n’. Tae tell ee the treuth, mair or less ilka tyme A thi
3 matches

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