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Use in varieties of Scots

defiance Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 5.3 0 9.9 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1310 0 1 1 0 1
Number of authors9 6 1 1 1

Occurrences of defiance in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
r heartpeetie, resignation or defiance. Gods an nymphs cam an gae in on page 102

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Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
in gallusness. As the soond o defiance agin nairrae-nebbit, wan-leid on page 4

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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
reckon, hingin in the air in defiance ay the blustery conditions. I
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Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
wide awake. There wis a bit o defiance and bravado at first.
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Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
at cinnabar fingers in a last defiance ay the advancin bluey black a
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McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
h i the pan, or neive-shakkin defiance frae the 45% i the snell efte
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Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
a narra escape. Tae prove his defiance his followers persuaded him t

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
When folk fa oot defiance aften folloes. When governmen
annihilatit. But that spark o defiance wis still ther an aboot tae s

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
door. A stoot warnin agin sic defiance. Except the resistance went o

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Nestle, in defiance, whar the tang and driftwid f on page 37

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
his göd airm in defiance an, laek Joshua on page 30

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Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
plain country workin men” in defiance of “weel lerned buddy” posh(2020) search twitter