A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

placate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of placate in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ome words ay reassurance; tae placate him in some waiy; tae gie him on page 11

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
, it'?U be awrite,' ah try an placate her. She looks at me again bu on page 18

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
.’ ah sais again, tryin tae placate the cunt wae ma free haun out
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ome words ay reassurance; tae placate him in some waiy; tae gie him
1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
doo. A peedie offering might placate them, a Snickers bar, or a gr (2021) twitter link