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The word 'feckless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fecklessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.31410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 feckless in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
lie_rennie Och it's only that feckless lad fae that non party https:(2021)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
yra Anderson, wis a junkie: a feckless, fite-faced vratchie wi hair
r easy culled frae the fey an feckless. Jude Anderson wis near echty
2 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
@aimeeannenaylor feckless that make me sound like a rig(2011)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Wha soundly thrashed that feckless dunkey on page 19
Wi' his feckless blawhard bluster. on page 28

2 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Gus’s diatribes against his feckless in-laws. Sure enough, that is
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
We are aw a bunch o drucken, feckless scroungers tae thon wey o thi on page 115

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ngle cannon, afore they got a feckless otder tae retreat frae their on page 39
d, an faur mair sae than this feckless meenister, an that wee whitre on page 41

2 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
onsal for her. An she is that feckless! She is that sakeless! She ha on page 89

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
I was feckless and seik o the Auld Grey toun on page 123

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
the feckless sea on page 63

1 matches

Niven, Liz Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Yin simmer in the life o a feckless freelance journalist is depic on page 87

1 matches

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