A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'satire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
satireOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4145
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 32.2 7 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 satire in Corpus

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(South) East Central

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

West 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

General Central

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

South West (Galloway)

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