A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

satire Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 6.9 0 0 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences1413 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of satire in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ns Frae Horace's First Buik o Satire, on page 100
Buik 1 Satire 1: The Rat Race on page 103
Buik 1 Satire 2: Houghmagandie on page 110
Buik 1 Satire 3: "Tae see oorsels...'. on page 116
Buik 1 Satire 9: "Chancer' on page 123

7 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
). It's aa picked oot in braw satire airtit at airy-heidit misdire on page 97

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
insichtfu wut an coruscating satire (some o the best satire Ah've on page 133

2 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
affed the sherp edges aff the satire and the lave o’t is a snod
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
zine Punch set furth a pawkie satire, got up like a peteetion, tha
an appearant threit. Ahin the satire the’r the real dreid o the
2 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
hir Dauvit Lindsay in his Ane Satire o the Thrie Estatis - "I quh(2020) search twitter