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The word 'sitch'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sitchOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.5315
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 353.4 4 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 394 12 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 218 12 1

Occurrences of sitch in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
erfu anarchy o words and mind sitch rhymes recaall!
ir aa the questions folk ask. Sitch rhymes as them, cater fir the
2 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Must feel sitch regret
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
An sitch a hap an hooch she gied on page 31
Sitch fang an flirry, ordhers gied: on page 34
The wie ye mine sitch rinnin: on page 39

4 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Sitch tangl't bakes lake limpets cl on page 2
Ayont sitch warldlie hell on page 12
Sitch sichts an soons fae lang ago on page 13
Abane sitch splits she prove't tae be. on page 28
Sitch yairns an crack tae lift oor on page 30
Also on pages 43, 55, 57, 71, 72
12 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ith, A niver fun oniebodie wi sitch faith ïn aa Israel! A say ta on page 9
daes he thïnk he ïs, taakin sitch blasphemie? Wha can forgie sà on page 78
ye, A niver fun oniebodie wi sitch faith ïn aa Israel." on page 80
ne. But wha's thon A'm hearin sitch thïngs aboot?" on page 85
s." But Jesus sayed, "Dae nae sitch thïng, for oniebodie that's on page 86
Also on pages 90, 92, 107
12 matches

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