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The word 'defiance'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
defianceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1139
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of defiance in Corpus

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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

1 matches

Shetland

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

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
wide awake. There wis a bit o defiance and bravado at first.
1 matches

West 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

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
reckon, hingin in the air in defiance ay the blustery conditions. I
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
at cinnabar fingers in a last defiance ay the advancin bluey black a
1 matches

General Central

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

1 matches

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
1 matches

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

General Ulster

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