Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'defenders'

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Use in varieties of Scots

defenders	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	6
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	94.2	3	1
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 defenders in Corpus

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
trophies? Ha ha. O course oor defenders are startin afore yours. You (2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rmally - and one of the best defenders around - great to see pixie (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
me his gane by, their role as defenders o Estaiblishment ideas his on on page 19

1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
hored Labour’s claes as the defenders o the Union. Richt across Sco
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
unsuspectin intae dae-or-dee defenders o Scottish syntax.
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
run laik a ballet dancer with defenders in his wake laik a pack o gru on page 32
pomp. I feel laik yin o they defenders he made sport o. He's there i on page 33

3 matches