A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fitting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fittingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.795
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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)
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 fitting in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
p roon yer lugs for easy mask fitting wid sort it oot(2020)
@Ali_Leith We are fitting an Internet acquired bathroom(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
hat sells suits? As needing a fitting for Bert's party(2017)
and a sair heed wee ma tight fitting new bunnet! #fittiebar(2017)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
- n awe bein well al defo b fitting in your friendlies if a can (2021) twitter link
@FNTeamwear lookin forward to fitting in as many games as a can - (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
It seemed sae ironically fitting then, on page 18

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General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
and then couldnae be bothered fitting it up again.. :) So.. It's in (2022) twitter link