A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'needless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
needlessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81613
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 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 12.2 5 4
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 24.8 4 4
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 needless in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
mutteran something aboot more needless expense. on page 14

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
weis feather's fleein awuiy. Needless tae say we hid a majic supper on page 33

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
wiz delivering for a courier. Needless to say, I got his signature a(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
she wid even notice. But ken? needless tae say, the bad luck continu on page 61

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
bi a skeillie Scots skreivar. Needless ti say, future edeitiouns o L
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
simple spellin rule athooten needless exceptions or orra spellins l
Thir kin o spellins is needless, an tho as like as no daes na
2 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
tage. He refused point blank, needless tae say the three horses aa r
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
acLean March', bi Rob Gibson. Needless ti say, aw bodie jyned in! It on page 3

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Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
ad jist been nearly murdered! Needless tae say, I darted away, and s
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ndy English fur a reason. So, needless tae say, general knowledge is on page 35

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
z specialising in simplifying needless vocabulary). After that bunch
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McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
s. Hence the following, which needless tae say wis accompanied by tw
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
n order fur when ah’m gone. Needless tae say Bruce doesnae ken any
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Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
gh school has ever conducted. Needless to say that the representativ on page 59

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Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Needless tae say ah wis receptive tae
1 matches

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