A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sumbody Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 0.5 6 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences61 4 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 1 3 1

Occurrences of sumbody in Corpus

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Central

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
“Aa richt, is sumbody gonnae let’s in on the secr
1 matches

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
"A canna alloo that. Sumbody micht get skaithed. Yer ettli on page 99

1 matches

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
lucky, sais Da wishin he hid sumbody tae run aifter him aa day. on page 43

1 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
ill efter the world cup. Need sumbody in afore that(2014) search twitter
C19 @JohnPDrummond its always sumbody ye dina expect(2013) search twitter

Southern

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@kt_scott88 sumbody got oot the wrong side o bed (2012) search twitter