Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'helpless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

helpless	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.1	17	10
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.3	3	1
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire	10.7	1	1
LAL - General Central	10.5	8	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
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 helpless in Corpus

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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

North Northern B (Caithness)

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

(South) East Central

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

West Central

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

Ayrshire

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

General Central

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

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

South West (Galloway)

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

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

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