A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pointless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pointlessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 pointless in Corpus

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Orkney

West, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
All o hid's pointless - hid'll soon revert back on page 74

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Am so good at Pointless dat I guessed Dave Edmunds af (2019) twitter link

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ae it, the posters were a bit pointless. I jist went alang wi it beca
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
wee bit mair intulectual than pointless - whits the script big man l (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
yin tae harass me intae huvin pointless conversations aboot who knows on page 169

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Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
in college daein’ somehing pointless bit mainly huvin a laugh wi R
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e night, it’d be an utterly pointless exercise.
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
€™re there but ah know it’s pointless so ah nod ma heid an sit doon
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General Central

@fairpechtoot tweeted
il says grammar exercises are pointless... https://t.co/FfJX60kh19(2017)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
Nae keen & me being deaf and pointless tae liaise. Said “no ta”. Y (2021) twitter link