Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'somehin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

somehin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	10	32	12
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	1
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	54.3	10	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	14.7	11	6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	83.4	6	2
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 somehin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
rds in an braw accent. It wis somehin ah had tae lairn. "Twa cups o
1 matches

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
s. An it energises ye tae dae somehin aboot yon hurt - whether it'
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Ah need tae talk tae yi aboot somehin. She grabbed ma airm an stoat on page 37
but. Aye. Well he musta said somehin. He said he'd think aboot it. on page 169

3 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
Jist then she heard somehin else splashin aboot in the po on page 21
egged the Moose tae tell them somehin else. on page 29
ot as it went, zif it'd loast somehin; an she heard it mutterin tae on page 33
guinea-pigs, who wir giein it somehin oot ae a boattle. They aw mad on page 40
ke tae hear her try an repeat somehin the noo. Tell her tae stairt. on page 102

5 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
, like he’s disappointed or somehin ; like ah’ve let him doon. �
gaun doon though, an mountin somehin ay a robust defence as he lan
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
shuttin his eyes an mutterin somehin aboot just restin them. McDad
fuckin dares thum - tae say somehin . The motors in front start ta
2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
r son? Where ye oan a boat or somehin ?’ wan ay the wummin asks.
1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A'm no here as somehin cute fur you tae just abuse, on page 26

1 matches

Beckett, Mavis Duncan Lallans 59 - Auntie Aggie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
if ye wir skivin ye wir daen somehin ye wantit tae dae yersel. on page 118

1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Wance somehin 's wrote,
stert daein somehin
somehin tae read's a
somehin
somehin as
6 matches

Geddes, Jenny Fling the creepie in January, (McRenegade.Scots 2018) Central, blog
intae the culture pan I fin' somehin ' else tae sen' me beelin'...
1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
uisin 'at hashtag whan a see somehin like 'is! :P(2020)

@jack_capener tweeted
rheids, but A ken ye cuid dae somehin similar fir ma ain toon o Edi(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
whispers fleein atween them. Somehin michta been said aboot hooris on page 76
You felt somehin then. You kent that she'd com on page 81

2 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
ee pulled oot a kerry-bag wae somehin in it an goes:
eal Girnin Gates. It wis jist somehin we made up when we came tae t
incin Mr Gobbs that we'd seen somehin in the fog up oan the Pendicl
"Ur we gonnae get somehin tae eat soon? Wur aw starvin.
4 matches