A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

defences Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of defences in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
pass through ma vision an ma defences ur non-existent, so I make na on page 3

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Before the boay's defences finally relinquishes and he s on page 108

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
montory fort (a settlement wi defences locatit abuin a stey brae, af
Burgheid in Moray has complex defences, whit includit a triple rampa
2 matches

Doric

@cligeey tweeted
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