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The word 'brent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42717
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 16 12 7
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 3
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 brent in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
noo heez hoose 'shines ilka a brent-new preen'. Whit Ah rue oan m on page 78

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
In Harrow, Brent - or Timbuctu.
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
02, whan masel, Rab Wilson an Brent Hodgson drave doun til Willie on page 3

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
naethin ablo ti ballanss, on brent-nyow sunk at hedna yit bene w on page 6

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Mony brent-new wirries, mony men burdala on page 14

1 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Ye ken hou Lilith wis brent a deevilock? on page 37

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
This wis a brent new idea for Alison, an she t on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
cairved deep, an his birsies brent on page 46
Aw day the dousie's brent and nou it's oot. on page 48
Fell doun an made the sky brent-new on page 64
Ma mynd tell o a hero, brent as sun, on page 101

4 matches

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
Fur me the brent and rustit on page 61

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
and in exactly hauf an oor a brent-new braw thick bonnie crop o on page 102

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
airt, whaur bruckle howfs are brent, on page 30
But tho ma brou be Botox-brent, waukent on page 34

2 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
™ ower fremmit ‘cotillions, brent-new frae France’, the’r a
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
f-wrutten afore Andy Eagle an Brent Hodgson’s anti-spam message
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
haud o ma copie o @StuartPoet brent new quair. Ma wee granweans F(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
biggins wur brent doon i 1979 an ae new centre
teid ruif gaed on fyre an wis brent til ae shunder, an the fyre e
he prow o ae ship wi seemilar brent
3 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Wee lass, wee brent-new wean on page 28

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Public Safety Advice oan the brent-new pestilence o 1348? on page 25

1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
Admir’t her brent white brou; her wycelike weys
Wi the brent white airms,
2 matches

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