Reply to the Toast to the Lassies

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Reply to the Toast to the Lassies is a humorous and often witty speech traditionally delivered by a woman at Burns Night celebrations, offering a playful response to the preceding Toast to the Lassies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Burns Night tradition
speech
audience Burns supper guests
countryOfOrigin Scotland
follows Toast to the Lassies NERFINISHED
hasGenre humorous speech
hasLanguage English
hasOccasion Burns Night celebration
Burns supper NERFINISHED
hasPurpose celebrate women
entertain guests
provide humorous balance
respond to the Toast to the Lassies
hasSubject Scottish culture
gender relations
women
hasTone playful
witty
honours Robert Burns NERFINISHED
isAssociatedWith Burns Night speeches
Scottish poetry
isCustomarily given after the Toast to the Lassies
isCustomarily given after the meal
isDeliveredBy woman
isOften informal
personalised to the audience
isPartOf Burns Night NERFINISHED
isPerformedAt formal Burns suppers
informal Burns suppers
isRelatedTo Immortal Memory NERFINISHED
Toast to the Lassies NERFINISHED
isTraditionally good-natured
light-hearted
requires public speaking
sense of humour
timePeriod modern Burns Night tradition
usesDevice irony
satire
wordplay

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Burns Night hasPart Reply to the Toast to the Lassies