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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 Corpus8.72918
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 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 18.4 14 8
SEA - South East (Borders) 36.3 3 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.8 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

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(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

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
English) Your bonie brow was brent (Colloquial Scots fae ancient on page 61
bonie...brow....Brent.. .But.. .brow...beld. .. ble on page 62

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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