A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

somewan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.1 14.4 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2928 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of somewan 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.

Central

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

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

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
MCR tip-exed oantae yer bag. Somewan oan the otherside's lookin oo on page 4
ae spare any bruised egos. If somewan takes it the wrang way, they' on page 25
sign, ah dinnae know whit is. Somewan oan the other side wanted me on page 32
nd ah'd love tae dae that fur somewan else - take them oan a richt on page 37
lassie, it's another tae huv somewan ye respect fink yer a stupid on page 41
Also on pages 42, 43
7 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
“Alexa, huv ye e’er seen somewan die?” ah say without hinkin
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ainlie a maiter o time before somewan ah know catches this bugger.
Ah hold ma breath every time somewan passes me. When ah wis in tha
g wur ye waitin tae speak tae somewan fur?
e’s taken the blood fae. If somewan hud tellt me a few weeks ago
Mammy,” ah say, no carin if somewan ootside hears me, “gie me t
5 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ah’ve read a forum post fae somewan who wants tae rehame three o
haunted dolls hoose’, and somewan else who’s convinced themse
2 matches

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

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

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

Ulster

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