A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sumhin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.9 16.4 6 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences3832 4 0 0 2 0
Number of authors13 11 2 1

Occurrences of sumhin 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

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ner if ah've been turnt intae sumhin in the night? Well, hink aboo on page 19
bit awfy polite: "Did ye hiv sumhin ye wantit tae say?" on page 26
tae say somebdy oaght tae say sumhin, an naebdy else wis fur pitti on page 27
bit she heard a wee shriek an sumhin fawin, an a crash ae broken g on page 36
anage it? Spose ah should fun sumhin tae eat or tae drink; bit the on page 42
Also on pages 59, 61, 69, 70, 71, 91
12 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
'Naw! A jalouse ye seen sumhin, but gin oo baith see it theg on page 59
'It's ettlin tae tell us sumhin, A'm shair... see!' on page 63

3 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
'Whae's thare? Say sumhin agane!' A rowst. on page 22

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Ma grannie wis sewin or sumhin. She niver says onyhin but ye on page 44
a really wild evil wumman or sumhin bit ye had a feelin a loat o on page 46

2 matches

McFarlane, Ishbel Oor hail culture is fatphobic ... an thon’s the real shame, (The National 2020) Central, newspaper
’re wrang an then sell them sumhin tae sort it. Coorse, it canna
1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
"Sumhin's no right in that wean's hei
"Ew! Still, couldnae huv been sumhin live. Maybe it wis a nail or
2 matches

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
d lookin fur a bit o a scran, sumhin ah really wantit tae eat. Ah
umwan wis in there, sumwan or sumhin? Ah wis feart noo, by th way.
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e him ‘Ye oan yer period or sumhin?’
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
l. Laugh if you like. Or read sumhin’ intil it. It’s aye the s
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Ain ‘Urs sumhin’ tae be said fur the aul’
Jelly Ur's sumhin’ up wi' ma brand new telly
Thur’s sumhin’ tae be sayed aboot the aul
3 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
time cause ah’ve never seen sumhin sae violent afore. No in real
jist stood there, amazed that sumhin like this could happen at ma
2 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
e at... a hink a member eatin sumhin lik at! Dae Lithuanian folk m(2020) search twitter
ng Aye yer no gonnae get ower sumhin lik at!(2020) search twitter

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
A jaloused thare wis sumhin wrang yon Tysday nicht whan A on page 97
Sumhin aye gaed iz a queerie souch i on page 99
r weys. A cuidnae stop fidgin sumhin awfae masel wi ma erse gaun t on page 100

3 matches

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
sumhin terrel | on page 3

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
til hir pantry tae sei til sumhin or ither, whan ane o the geth
der. Shei wis aye eident daen sumhin or ither tae ease the social
2 matches

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