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Use in varieties of Scots

helping Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.2 6 5.9 9.9 17.4 41.3 0
Number of occurrences2412 4 1 3 4 0
Number of authors16 10 1 1 2 2

Occurrences of helping in Corpus

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Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
ese natives. | don't mind you helping the boy, as I can see he's so on page 1

1 matches

Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 74 - Kenspeckle Man, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Ye gied a helping haun tae ithers.
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
t they shuid be gien an extra helping o fish-food tae see them thro
1 matches

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
Maist fowk are braw when yir helping them choose thi frames and th
1 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
But stead o helping neebour carl,
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
wi the panic buying, it's no helping them or anybody else....(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
ave made so many.. Talk aboot helping wi' the situation..!!! (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
ter a busy day o coaching and helping others? xxx(2014) search twitter
in Scotland a would be there helping you. But if you're movin up t(2015) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
fan26 Why wid God need tae be helping ye? I spent 20 odd years gett(2020) search twitter

@annieones tweeted
you, i thought you were just helping her haud that big heavy votin (2021) twitter link
you, i thought you were just helping her haud that big heavy votin (2021) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ases fur gyan up fur a second helping aat Buckie Ferm in Aiberdeen (2015) search twitter
ry cannae bide an spik, ah’m helping the #police wi their enquires(2018) search twitter
ikken fur a wikk, ah hiv been helping the Bobbies wi their enquires(2019) search twitter
tae darg day! @lyn_golden is helping me wi the website! #TakeYourD(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Shush, lass, hid's no helping tae think like that. Shut yir on page 20

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
pend on trows. Wir kept trang helping da yowes when dey ir lambin.
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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
d a few smiles. It feels good helping a stranger and fae what I've (2020) search twitter
ieredwing It's semi parasitic helping keep doon on da grass. If you(2019) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ie, ae Netta Jirdin, whae wis helping ma muther oot, i the
ur fairlie weel domesticated, helping thair marrows oot wi sindrie
obs; sic is leukin the sheep, helping wi the lambin, hervestin the
3 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
and staff for such hard work helping a 90 y-o shielding constituen(2020) search twitter

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