The word "pits" is correct and usable in written English.
It generally refers to a hole dug in the ground (such as in mining) or a depression in the surface (such as a pits in a peach). You can use the word in various situations. For example: "The gold miners dug deep pits into the ground in search of treasure."
The letter, released under the Freedom of Information Act, concluded: "Scargill could immediately announce that the NUM will continue its policy of opposing the closure of pits for economic reasons".
Deliberately structured like a western, American Sniper's climax pits Kyle against Mustafa, an Iraqi sniper who does not utter a single word throughout the entire film.
In the 1980s we were automating the industry and many lower-technology pits were at risk of displacement as others were turned into computerised superpits - in a stagnant market for coal.
And although increased productivity would have always meant lower employment at the same levels of output, the destruction of coal's share of power generation had nothing to do with uneconomic pits and everything to do with the rigging of the privatised electricity market in favour of gas to break the miners' grip.
Former detainees and senior military sources described how detainees were regularly tortured to death, hung on poles over fires, tossed into deep pits or interrogated using electric batons.
Had Ratzenberger not been under pressure to make the most of each lap rather than waste two of them by making an unplanned call at the pits, he would probably have chosen to stop and have the car checked over.
On March 6 1984, the chairman of the Coal Board, Ian MacGregor, announced that 20 uneconomic pits would have to close, putting 20,000 miners out of work; almost immediately, Arthur Scargill, leader of the NUM, called for an all-out strike.
The only Olivier voted on by the public, the Radio 2 audience award, pits several long-running shows against each other: Billy Elliot the Musical, Matilda: the Musical (which won big at last year's awards), The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked.
The labyrinthine heart remains intact, a maze of tiny streets, souks, monuments and traditional dye pits.
The restoration team watched the original raw footage and discovered shots of bulldozers shovelling corpses into the burial pits that was too gruesome even for such a shocking film.
Lewis's book, wrote John Arlidge in the Sunday Times, "contains his most alarming message yet … Flash boys are not braying Gordon 'Greed is good' Gekkos or Jordan Wolff of Wall Street' Belforts who work in old-fashioned traders' bear pits.
