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The word 'resistance'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
resistanceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72915
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 53.1 5 2
EDN - Edinburgh 24.8 4 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of resistance in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
els, sae as tae broaden their resistance tae bugs, germs, an aa the it
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
n the WW2 era, the 'Norwegian Resistance Museum', locatit in an auld c on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

Benzie, Lesley Tales Fae The Doric Side - Vadim Shysimarin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
his resistance caved as the pressure on page 65

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
rmations o Scots. This thrawn resistance is aye mindit in the beuks o
1 matches

(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
nguage o liminality tae one o resistance an unity.
It’s also worth mindin that resistance (as rebellion) in the Jamaica
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
eetins. Fae the aff there wis resistance tae the idea o the Vigil gett on page 104
o human beins as onie o us an resistance tae richt-wing extremism his on page 115

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
jist persistence, resistance on page 120

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
William Wallace that led the resistance tae the invasion by the Engli on page 22

2 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
t for a bodie tae gie him the resistance he wis efter, he fell tae to on page 8
oor haunnles disnae offer ony resistance tae his desperate, adrenaline on page 9

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
hey’ll tak the line o least resistance. Weill ... the funnel narraes
r her tunic an she offert nae resistance. Her breists wis bound up ric
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ugs — tae mount any sort ay resistance, an we’re in aboot it.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
y-poukery, an owercomin their resistance wi skeel an wice-like guid na on page 23

1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando “Blood Upon the Grass” – merk twa?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
o effective representation an resistance is obviously minimal. Shid Sc
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
in baith o thir laws, an this resistance micht pruive an early test o
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
, tae rouse the folk tae mair resistance against the government.
xt thing he taks his plan fur resistance a stage further.

Facebook link ( 2020) Central
e country but didna stoap the resistance. In fact it seemed tae stiffe

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
agin sic defiance. Except the resistance went on.

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
d tae escape and continue his resistance.
land it wis a richt hotspot o resistance. Indeed some o the biggest ga

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
the year afore he kept up the resistance, even excomunicatit baith kin
p the baton an be pairt o the resistance ....

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
But truth tae tell ye gie nae resistance, scrub up weel on page 77

1 matches

General Ulster

Alexander, Brian Yarns 3 - Pilgrimage tae Passchendaele, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Dufferin, prose
yin for the brave sauls o the Resistance in whit wis then Vichy France
1 matches

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