A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'harmless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
harmlessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
ORK - Orkney
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 harmless in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
r, da stuff dey DO flag up is harmless.(2021)

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
as lovely, eh? A gentleman. A harmless old guy. A wee holiday park e on page 21

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
devious look aboot him. He's harmless but cos he's thick as mince. on page 7
. These kinda cunts ir mostly harmless, but if they hud been takin t on page 12

3 matches

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
tenentis and seruandis salbe harmless and skaithles in thair bodeis on page 23

1 matches

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