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ANTISYZYGY, n. also antizisigy. See Caledonian antisyzygy.Sc. 1994 Orcadian 1 Dec 8:
We see the Scottish antisyzygy in full juddering flow, with the juxtaposition of darg and dwaum, fantasy and foostiness, the lyrical and loathly.Sc. 1998 Andrew Lothian in Conrad Wilson et al. Books in Scotland 66 29:
Joyce M. Wallace's Traditions of Trinity and Leith is a second edition of a work which had a deservedly warm welcome when it first appeared some fourteen years ago. If it seems funny that such different places lie nicely together between the covers, then that's Auld Reekie, for you, the antizisigy edinburgensis.Sc. 2000 Scotland on Sunday 7 May 13:
The ghosts of Scotland's past independence raise their bloodied heads again in James Robertson's first and accomplished novel, whose structure — an alternating amalgam of present and past — is a timely version of the age-old story of Scottish antisyzygy, the split self.Sc. 2004 Herald 17 Jan 6:
With any luck, she'll soon be part of Scottish society, yet she knows nothing about us other than what she's gleaned from a lifetime's addiction to exported British soaps. Where should she start? she asks, running a finger along the spines of a hundred Nigel Tranters. Not there, I say, and go off to compile a list; a rough literary guide, if you like, to this nation of seething antisyzygies.