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thatcher Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 11.8 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2423 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors14 13 1

Occurrences of thatcher in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
s early tae watch the news as Thatcher waved her lang oerdue adieus on page 78

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ie Baird an Bell Claverhouse, Thatcher, Blair, Mundell Dr. Findlay, on page 77

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ut then that hard nosed bitch Thatcher came along wae her crusade ag on page 86
wready arrived in the form ae Thatcher and her annoyin, smug puss. S on page 87
. He wis in the vanguard when Thatcher decided tae cut oaff the baws on page 88
fe long sense ae camaraderie. Thatcher took that birth right awey fa on page 89

7 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
u the black gold wis uised bi Thatcher an her maisters tae destroy h on page 23
u Theresa May, the puir man's Thatcher, thocht that she cuid get awa on page 55

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
wha went aboot we that Dame Thatcher. on page 49

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Labour shut as mony as Thatcher did. on page 76
We aa thocht that Thatcher wis backin doun, on page 78

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
an point, another casualty ay Thatcher’s boom or bust Britain. Nae
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ed Witch o the West (a Maggie Thatcher lookalike) an kilt her stane
1 matches

Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
verra sowel o the kintra, as Thatcher pruived.
1 matches

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
stairtit unner Callaghan, no Thatcher.
airty haed buir the gree ower Thatcher i 1983 an implementit Bennite
on individual bad fowk, frae Thatcher an Blair tae Sheridan an Tsip
3 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
jist Adam Boulton and Maggie Thatcher that think/thought we were 'g (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
we'd a' be delighted tae hae Thatcher back.(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
97 shees a wee clone o maggie thatcher - mark ma words! (2020) twitter link

Doric

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
a bit too far there Roddy FFS Thatcher?(2021) search twitter