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The word 'sommat'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sommatOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus21.2691
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 159.3 35 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 45.1 34 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sommat 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.

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
. A pal and we've already gat sommat in common, h always appreciat on page 7

19 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
cture hall queue and asked if sommat hud happened at work. Ah shoo
d me tae. Ah tellt hur it wis sommat ah could only say when ah mea
ae picture worthy, but it wis sommat. She micht as well o been ma
3 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah hink ah’m comin doon wi sommat,” ah say, coughin. Ah huv t
burial. The Daily Mail wrote sommat aboot a coronavirus morgue in
should o gat them taxis—or sommat. Some folk huvnae gat two bra
aun’ae be, and the thocht o sommat bad happenin tae ye is as wor
asel. It feels like there’s sommat stuck in ma lungs and throat,
10 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e wumman who droaps it aff is sommat else. She’s gat hair every
ed and scratched the place up sommat stupid.’
ol like an auld fool. Ah feel sommat behind wan o ma feet. Ah mano
3 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
A pal, and we've already gat sommat in common. Ah always apprecia on page 5
There's sommat funny aboot Dante ah fink in on page 10
ually, ye know when yer daein sommat wrang like nickin a Bubbaloo on page 16
uld tae huv them come away wi sommat like that? on page 23
talk. Everywan's tryin tae be sommat they're no. Ah showed ma Gran on page 24
Also on pages 27, 30, 35, 36, 46, 49, 52, 54
13 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
rst drink in months. Ah gasp. Sommat is drippin oantae the deck. on page xv
s, feelin as almichty as hur. Sommat's comin oot o me, and ah've n on page xx
'Here's a wee sommat fae us,' ah say, haundin Cath on page 7
a wean, Cathy treated me like sommat she'd found oan the bottom o on page 9
friendship huv been undone by sommat as simple as Mum sayin she wa on page 27
Also on pages 29, 31, 34, 46, 47, 60, 75, 76, 77, 80, 82, 84, 116
21 matches

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