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Use in varieties of Scots

hapless Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3.6 1.5 19.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences117 1 2 0 0 1
Number of authors9 5 1 2 1

Occurrences of hapless in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
muscly richt airm, heezed the hapless laddie skite oot his seat and on page 142
, then she turnt back tae the hapless Wilfred. 'Richt, laddie,' she on page 211

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The Radicals hapless proclamation, on page 41
pt doun lik falcons oan thair hapless prey, on page 98

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
rohistory tryin tae dupe some hapless government or anither intae a
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
can ye say for Dugdale an her hapless troops efter yit anither haim
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
olks n watch the fm n awe her hapless mps - make a complete pigs e (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e find 'the one' goes on. The hapless Meldrum fairmer turns te mode on page 50

1 matches

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
for some poor, hapless weemen in Orkney. on page 11

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
He grabbid aap the hapless burd, on page 39

1 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Hapless hunter wat an loost, on page 50

1 matches

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