A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pitches Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.6 6.6 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1513 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of pitches in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
t aw efternoon oan the fitbaw pitches, near enough catchin oor deat on page 7

1 matches

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

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

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

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

@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.

Doric

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

Ulster

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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