A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sometin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sometinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 sometin in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
ch wis knockin I kent der wis sometin amiss. We haaled, an up cam d
a caald dreich job, bit der's sometin kinda lychtsome tö, whin da
2 matches

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
bocht. If dey hae ta wirk fur sometin, dey wad redder no hae it. Ki
oulda telt her, I dunna kaen. Sometin lik dat knocks da wit fae you
I could tell sometin wis wrang wi her. Der wis nae
3 matches

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
tae sleep again, but instead sometin wis keeping me wide awak and
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Tae a feelin' towl mae sometin wiz near. on page 25

1 matches

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