A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

helpful Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences64 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of helpful in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
But A hink it's jist helpful tae ken that A'm no on page 18

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ear inbye. Wullie made hessel helpful an gittin in awb’dy’s wey
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
everyone has been polite and helpful to the best of their ability (2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
We're aye gled tae be helpful! Please let us ken if ye've y (2018) twitter link

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
hee's hoose, becin thi keyna helpful laad eit hee weis. Weel gin u on page 32

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
y by elections. You were dead helpful, passionate, encouraging & st (2021) twitter link