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Use in varieties of Scots

pittance Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences53 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of pittance in Corpus

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Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
wi a pittance tae get by wi yet on page 32

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
kent aw along: it wis worth a pittance. The colour fae oor faces dra on page 17
ul destroyin callcentre fur a pittance oor minimum wage. Or brek on page 85

2 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ome reason. The pension wiz a pittance but the fyowe pound a year hi
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
weemen scrubbin laundry fur a pittance. The simple life at hame onli on page 27

1 matches

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