A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sumb'dy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.6 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of sumb'dy in Corpus

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Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
Sumb'dy geid me rat stinkin' heid cau
dar period; bit rest assured, sumb'dy geid me it.
2 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
sumb'dy cuid hae
ye're representin sumb'dy
o sumb'dy thit
3 matches

Doric

@Franwella tweeted
eet that I dinna unnerstan or sumb'dy buggerin aboot we yer profile(2012) search twitter