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Use in varieties of Scots

brill Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.1 0 0 5.8 41.3 4.4
Number of occurrences126 0 0 1 4 1
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of brill in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
The weather's brill! The weather's mint! Yon sun on page 77

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
Jason Brill stoatit in five meenits late on page 5

1 matches

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
ight fae the start, Betty wiz brill – and up front at ivry scen
1 matches

Lamb, Darcie T in the Park, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
he excitement A felt wis jist brill. Next we aw heided doon tae t
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
iesaurus Thanks hen, its been brill. Here's tae 2022 ???????????? (2021) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
eeing Trainspotting2 tonight. Brill! #100happydays https://t.co/D(2017) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
illustrations look absolutely brill, cannae wait tae hae this in (2020) search twitter
@SWCoastal300 @gallowayglens Brill. I do believe this will dae m(2020) search twitter
@HurchinHome Brill. We need tae blether aboot Ti(2020) search twitter
@LATraynor Totally brill Lesley, made up for youse! x(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
@RabLennox @WomenAloudNI Ah brill, ye's are all wile nice!(2020) search twitter