A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

witless Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 0 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences64 0 0 2 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of witless in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
fur aw their bravado, scared witless. on page 1

1 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
wi witless, bizzan scythe an suin on page 54

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
things he got up tae scare me witless. He certainly wis as brave as

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
things he got up tae scare me witless. He certainly wis as brave as

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
p inta da heevens laek someen witless. on page 57
wal - wid'n dat be richt, du witless object?" on page 75

2 matches

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