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The word 'defender'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
defenderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of defender in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
never wis ony ees at it, wis Defender in i Kintore Fish & Chicken B(2019)

General Northern

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
dinburgh nooadays, bit Ah'm a Defender o' ih Doric forbye. Div ye ke (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
cross wi a burly Gurkha, the defender’s heid caucht him full squa
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
Maguire93 a clueless overpaid defender defo - n thats the polite ve (2020) twitter link

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
compulsorie borrowin frae the defender; that is ti say, o uisin the on page 25

1 matches

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