Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

futile	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	1.8	3	0	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	6	6	0	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	4	4

Occurrences of futile 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

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
rts tae win heicher goals are futile if this binna won. on page 56

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ah append in the desperate an futile attempt tae retain some digni
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
slapped oan tae her dish in a futile attempt at hidin the aforemen
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
er wis released in a furious, futile an’ useless chairge! As we
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
the chair in a desperate, yit futile attempt, tae brek free fae th
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
an SAS style entry huv proved futile and worse still, eh? Bruce is
1 matches