A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stitches Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 4.1 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences118 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of stitches in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
laughin in stitches. on page 4
he stitches people up doon thir inside le on page 65
shi hiz me in stitches on page 67

3 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
awright; he had tae get three stitches above his left eye an Harpree on page 119

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
An gie folk stitches.
1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
rou wee holes made by drapped stitches. At the faur end o ane street
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
is hanked thegither like the stitches in the crochet mats ye yaised
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
So Cameron burst the stitches so he cud save the day, aye? (2020) search twitter

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
stitches" As the doctor pit three stit
" As the doctor pit three stitches in Jonsar Eck's nose, Jonsar
2 matches

Orkney

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
stitches are brakkan an the stems on page 108

1 matches

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