A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

someen Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12 0 0 29.8 197.6 0 0
Number of occurrences370 0 3 34 0 0
Number of authors13 3 10

Occurrences of someen in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
arest garage - they wid send someen doon in a blink. on page 41

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
ling is winsome noo; sheu’s someen ither
1 matches

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
an if they wirno wirkin in it someen ether wid run awa wae hid fae
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
da jar for faer at he killed someen, so shö managed ta set him i on page 9
A'll bide doon here till A'm someen idder'-but, oh dear!" cried A on page 20
ae wye ta him, for dey wantit someen ta head dem up, an up till da on page 26
r twartree meenits shö heard someen spaekin furt, an stoppit ta l on page 36
aanin up inta da heevens laek someen witless. on page 57
Also on pages 58, 60, 82, 85, 91, 120
14 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
at Rackwick: someen staandin on page 28

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ta let someen pass. Whin aa on page 40
du'll ken at someen does on page 64
du's shaa'n me someen at I nivver kent I wis. on page 86

3 matches

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
a hae a luik. Hit belanged ta someen, an every boatman is dependin
1 matches

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
rsel, an if you're aye needin someen dere, your coach is no done h
me proil i da terminal, whin someen liftet da kep fae me haed an
2 matches

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
Someen man a shaan dem whaar da pilt
1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
granny aye spok aboot whether someen hed a lucky fit or not. If sh

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
a tip fae da drivers. I tink someen telt me dat some grinds wir m

Nicholson, Hannah Samhain - Usher in the Dark - Minni-Babbi, (Leopard Arts 2021) Shetland, prose
wis juist a witch, a heathen, someen at dey pat up wi but didna ca
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
und da sam on da phone, so if someen phones an dir probably lippen (2021) twitter link

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ng, or tae be able tae go tae someen else's place.(2021) search twitter
Also as someen at's worked ower mony retail (2021) search twitter
ere, guessin they waded intae someen's replies because I've never (2021) search twitter
weird as hell. You kin report someen fir racist / homophobic / tra(2021) search twitter

@HazelTindall tweeted
in ta open da bag ta see whit someen chose for me ta read! Tanks t(2020) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
Loff hoo it can tell dee whar someen is fae :-) it’s dat fine du (2020) search twitter
= swine :) LOVE yun image of someen gettin a gluff an endin up wi(2020) search twitter
really been on a spree until someen plays Wagon Wheel...(2019) search twitter

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