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The word 'helping'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
helpingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22416
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 36.3 3 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 helping in Corpus

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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.
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
d a few smiles. It feels good helping a stranger and fae what I've (2020)
ieredwing It's semi parasitic helping keep doon on da grass. If you(2019)

Mid Northern A

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

(South) East 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

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

West Central

@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

Dundee

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

General Central

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

@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)
in Scotland a would be there helping you. But if you're movin up t(2015)

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

South East (Borders)

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

South West (Galloway)

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