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Use in varieties of Scots

helpless Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.5 7.4 1.6 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1714 1 0 1 0 1
Number of authors10 7 1 1 1

Occurrences of helpless in Corpus

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Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
like helpless tears on wussen'd, careworn c on page 27

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
had tae watch helpless as their grand houses were fy on page 34

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
he. Ah Stare doon deep at his helpless frightened wee puss. And as a on page 153
tae oor destination the maire helpless he appears tae be. This drive on page 158
balloon. And as ah watch his helpless surrender ah find masel strug on page 161

3 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
disappearin like that. A-wee, helpless bairn." on page 103
But then she looked up at her helpless sister and she kent whit her on page 110

2 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
But we're helpless, quine, helpless. on page 25
their helpless airms. on page 32
Women! Useless! Helpless! on page 35

4 matches

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
e made yer choice, yer jist a helpless wee lassie, caught in ma wab,
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
hur experience. They felt sae helpless an abandoned by the authoriti(2020) search twitter
l. Treatin Nicky like she's a helpless victim jist acause she's a se(2020) search twitter

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Alice could see id tryan in a helpless sort o way till fly up intill on page 82

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
helpless fae tha harbour waa on page 88

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
r Alice cud see it tryin in a helpless soart o a wye tae fly up a tr on page 85

1 matches

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