A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

needful Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of needful in Corpus

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Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
It's hardly needful to explain
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
han he tells the parable o "a needful weeda drappin twa fardins" an
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
rturers, maks it seem normal, needful, “jist ane o thae things”
1 matches

Doric

@Franwella tweeted
Nicol1 hell ye. Shall I de th needful?(2011) search twitter