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The word 'defensive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
defensiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 defensive in Corpus

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General Northern

@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)
Likely hedgie lbw is defensive fear but attack boost https:/(2020)

(South) East Central

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

Dundee

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

Edinburgh

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

Glasgow

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

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