A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

defensive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.1 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences96 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 2

Occurrences of defensive in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
he sounds as if she's oan the defensive here, like she'll knock this on page 20

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
remark which sends me oan the defensive. on page 63
appears tae send him oan the defensive, "I know it's not an ideal si on page 126

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
cht fer sittin on. It his nae defensive properties whitsaivver, bein on page 32

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
wey tae clachans, laid oot in defensive postures, wi the ooter waas o
e that time they were in guid defensive poseetions. They made the ine
2 matches

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
emoaning aboot the fact he is defensive midfielder. We could be left (2022) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
e a possibility ana. Bit mair defensive. I think starrin 11 il be jis(2020) search twitter
Likely hedgie lbw is defensive fear but attack boost https:/(2020) search twitter