A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pitches'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pitchesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4148
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.3 6 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 pitches 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.

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
used by communities for fitba pitches, Highland Games, and battles (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ay - n it was barry tae c - pitches taped off/people social dista (2020) twitter link
l offs last night - couple o pitches that were off surprised me tb (2020) twitter link
y oan the terraces/playin oan pitches that were like ploughed field (2020) twitter link
ad at goreglen guys - plenty pitches there wae a guid view lol (2020) twitter link
ams not allowed to play on 3g pitches - fitbaw is a mans game guys (2020) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
is a fight ower in the hockey pitches after school the day. Kelly M on page 81

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ower the road tae the public pitches. A’d get changed fir me lun
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae trainin at the Greenfield pitches.
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
us! They're bigger than fitba pitches! Nae biggin in the warld wid on page 72

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
t aw efternoon oan the fitbaw pitches, near enough catchin oor deat on page 20

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
the road and oantae the blaes pitches, countin doon the days tae th on page 37

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
p in oor ain wee country. The pitches he played on were slunky and on page 32

1 matches

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