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The word 'farce'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
farceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21712
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 farce in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
yer wrang Fitba facts? Jist a farce , Echyty three wiz ‘e year ,(2018)

@72redz1903 tweeted
, but, there is a point where farce brings the whole question of (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
ay taks the form o a Scottish farce whaur the men in the
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
tae Tartuffe. In true French farce style, aw the loose ends is r
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ifness is wordy o ony clessic farce. The hilarious slaw motion re
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
b completed - or its just a farce imo (2021) twitter link
it all 2 me - its a complete farce and a clear bias for the seco (2021) twitter link
tatement imo - after all the farce of the lowland league and hig (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
tandard Grade Drama's a total farce. Wur meantae be learnin Stage on page 169

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Juist months afore the farce o Culloden on page 42

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he guys who set up this whole farce in the first place.”
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Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
utin’, glaikit through this farce,
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General Central

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
primpit bampots in a frenzied farce find insteid a bang up-to-dat
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Daein it yersel, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
An that’s hou I cam tae the farce o yestreen. It wis like turni
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McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
didates an aw the lave o this farce. An while it is true that sum
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McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
t it wis aw a sham, a show, a farce that wad be obvious tae a bod
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@alistairdunn tweeted
d cup in qatar is an absolute farce in the first place(2015)

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