A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

humorous Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 2.1 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences54 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of humorous in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
an artwork, muckle o it wi a humorous bent, an monie musicians an b on page 107

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
'Beyond the Pale', a quaetlie humorous prose wark bi Stephen Pacitti on page 7

1 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
t they mean? Are lallan Scots humorous fowk, yaisin a couthie wurd h
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
er', a website which provides humorous illustratit definitions o Sco (2018) twitter link

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
be virrfu, tender, yirdie or humorous, an the best poetrie cairries on page 34

1 matches

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