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Use in varieties of Scots

pill Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 4.8 1.6 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences129 1 1 0 0 1
Number of authors9 6 1 1 1

Occurrences of pill in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
A bodie need tak jist the ae pill ilka week, an they wadna feel on page 76

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
is relyin oan a day-othe-week pill box tae keep me goin. She wis on page 10

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
eggs an swallaed anither pill.
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
The wimmin jist wantin the pill.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tevie McShane mimes flickin a pill intae the air an catchin it i
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
€˜You gotta just take a chill pill, y’know? Does you no good g
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
. Efteraw, it might be a hard pill tae swallae. But, still, eh?
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Lits jist say that’s a hard pill tae swallae, eh?
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
be in the midst ae some happy pill pandemic. Everyboady seems ta
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
kie, there’s clythes, burst pill bottles and bashed cans lying
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Or the birth-pill I took in me twenties - on page 18

1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
It wiz a bitter pill on page 9

1 matches

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