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The word 'someplace'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
someplaceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4149
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 someplace 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.

Mid Northern A

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
strippit blanket. Ey cam frae someplace in Sooth Americay. Att’s a
1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
about someplace: aye, an there is an aa!" she on page 32
Gin ye're seekin tae win someplace idder, ye maan rin at laest t on page 34

2 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
mannie came up fae London or someplace, said he’d got wind o this
1 matches

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
it is wunnerfu tae me tae hae someplace tae gae reglar, whaur I kin j on page 56

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ummer dress cause we could go someplace that wis near a beach. Aye ma on page 112

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Scotland, Dundee wis seen as someplace particklarly coorse. Even as on page 103

1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
believe the array is focussed someplace else. They dinna ken the blin
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
el, 'My flooer is awa yonder, someplace.' But gin the sheep eats the on page 30
!' said the king. 'I ken that someplace on my planet bides an auld ra on page 41
e o a streetlamp an a leerie, someplace in the lift, on a planet wi n on page 49
said the wee prince, 'is that someplace it bields a well.' on page 78
universe can be the same gif someplace, we kenna whaur, a sheep we h on page 93

5 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
dship nou-a-days. A’ve read someplace, thit
1 matches

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