A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sumpn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sumpnOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1131
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 32.6 6 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 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 sumpn in Corpus

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Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
sumpn tae eat.
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
dishes he reached up high and sumpn fell oot his pocket.
whit he wis sayin but it wis sumpn like Sammy Rinpoche, Hammy Ri
taken wi the lamas; there wis sumpn aboot them, they were that ch
'Rinpoche, can ah ask you sumpn?'
t us play. And ah'll tell you sumpn, the team wins a sight mair o
5 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
Its good tae find sumpn that cheers him up even a wee
ns. Ah really wanted tae make sumpn fur ma daddy’s Christmas wi
ord individually as if it wis sumpn disgusting.
walk past a shelf and wheech sumpn intae her pocket afore anybdy
nna widny rob hooses or steal sumpn oot yer purse but she disny t
7 matches

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