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The word 'brill'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brillOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9139
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 97.6 7 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of brill in Corpus

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Shetland

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

(South) East Central

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

West Central

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

General Central

McLeish, Alistair Lallans 102 - Eco Cheil, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
It's brill wi stills o tits n bum'. on page 39

1 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

South West (Galloway)

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

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

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

East Antrim (Larne)

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