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Use in varieties of Scots

careless Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.3 3.5 3 9.9 0 0 3.9
Number of occurrences117 2 1 0 0 1
Number of authors10 6 2 1 1

Occurrences of careless in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
But the pale mune pu'd, the careless tide ran high, on page 17

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
hegither, lauched sin we were careless bairns on page 39
flidderin careless in the wund. Her lungs souch on page 45

2 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
y a dey haed bin ruint by his careless remerks. "Genevieve, you coul on page 1

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
xpensive bike an Karen's dead careless wi her stuff: the last bike s on page 40

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
e,' said Mr Wonka. 'Hoo awfie careless.' on page 169

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Wi’ careless, wilfu’ speed,
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
s torpedoed aff Iceland? Affa careless o him, wisn't it? An the boat on page 44

1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
ae attention tae me. “Awfie careless folk are, specially the wummi
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
eids. Folk are bean doonright careless, oot on the streets in broad
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
hae tae mak answer fer iverie careless wurd the' hae spauk. Fer bi y on page 9

1 matches

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