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The word 'defendin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
defendinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.899
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
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 defendin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Weel, I can!" Ah said, defendin ilky Doric spikkin bodie in t on page 8

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
There really is nae defendin this cunt sometimes. Ah mean, on page 133

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
tae mak the simple pynt that defendin Scottish culture is o great i on page 64

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
r the wild rampagin o a beast defendin its wee yins: it wis the refi
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
twa they gied up ony ettle at defendin theirsels and shot the craw. on page 6

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
Sin than, insteid o defendin Scots agin the chairge at it on page 56

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
n yit. Snapshots, lik the SNP defendin a cooncil saet i Kirkaldy, ta
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
ay naw. An nixt thing ye’re defendin yer richts, huvin tae pit yer

@DABArbuckle tweeted
uckle bint. Oan the Vine show defendin fellow lunatic Trump while sh(2020)

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