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The word 'somewan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
somewanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2146
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of somewan in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Growlin, 'Gin somewan follaes me, Ah'll crucify the on page 15

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
on, bit if ah wis bored an’ somewan cam up wi’ a guid idea ah w
se that ah shud huv jist telt somewan back then an’ ah feel guilt
2 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Ah regret no meldin masel tae somewan on page 21
while somewan shaws pics o thair newly writ on page 39
that somewan feels the need on page 45

3 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
Somethin tells Me somewan knows whit’s comin and dusne(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
h've bin watchin a film whaur somewan's keepin watch or searchin fe(2020)
cannae "fear fer yer life" if somewan's runnin awa fae ye. It wis r(2020)
nd jury members. Polis killin somewan in thur ane bed seems like a (2020)
e watch, but if Howard wantit somewan wha'd rush thru the investiga(2020)
emma's makeup? She luiks like somewan's slapped her hard in the pus(2020)
and 1 other occurrences.

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
Somewan has let thon Ben Lowry eejit (2018)