A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

defy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 0 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences64 0 1 0 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of defy in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
pairish folk; an thousans wad defy the prelates an bring their b on page 27

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Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
edit tae her, an' widnae dare defy her. Ah hear tell she's no ab on page 20

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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
They daur defy me tae ma face.
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
faar as thy mensk alloos, an defy onybody tae criticise thee. T
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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
o ither pieces, many o which defy categorisation. There are occ on page 1

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Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ak wi confidence, as much tae defy hir ma as tae trample the cha on page 16

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