A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'stitch'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stitchOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51514
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 stitch in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
I tried tae stitch every single hole on page 104

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
m clip oot the shapes an syne stitch them aa thegither fin her een on page 79

1 matches

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
n, bonny duncers bit scarce a stitch on em. Edinbro’s naa e warm
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
"Aye," said Chairlie, "ivvry stitch. An in case ye're winnerin, m on page 90

1 matches

General Northern

Wilde, Jacqueline Jay Valentine Tango, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
You wi no a stitch oan ye
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
Ocht, Ah've drappit a stitch, that's whit ye git fur no ta on page 27

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
s guid-wife that rins a cross-stitch shop, whiles sets up a staw i
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
forced tae stitch Jude stars ontae their claes, on page 90

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
d. Even when my mither let me stitch some of the wee pearly draps on page 3

1 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
wi oor initials done in cross stitch. We did an awfu lot o singin on page 120

1 matches

Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
nae end i sicht tae the elite stitch-up an jist want tae shak thin
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
tern on it, or did yer mither stitch it hersel? Ah'm no familiar w(2020)
eant tae ask, how's the cross-stitch comin? Is it finished yet?(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
an “George Who?” tryin tae stitch up indyref. Whit are they sca(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
l think o this day, till ilka stitch unpickt wis the unravellin o on page 61

1 matches

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