A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'some-'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
some-Occurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.622
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 some- 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.

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
da Göd Man said, 'We'll need some-ean ta look efter aa dis. Some on page 4
¶d Man towt dat Adie wid need some-ean ta share aa dis wi, so he on page 5
tell lees ta bring budder on some-ean. on page 16
a da owld wife. Shö kent dat some-ean wid hae ta look ta da owld on page 17
hö lookit aafil oot a place. Some-ean said dat shö wis a dochte on page 19
Also on pages 21, 24, 25, 51, 57, 81, 83, 87, 93, 117, 119, 125, 139, 147, 151, 159, 160, 163, 169, 171
30 matches

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
wis in da pooch o her pinny. Some-een aye purlin wi da hay. Ir w
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Far she bade or some-een ca-ed er aff An till her d on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
e sky-train. It gart him feel some-like an erne wheechin ben the
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
ng aboot it. It leukit as tho some-een haed been oot airly wi the on page 90

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
Sae, ay, it was gweed tae hae some-een tae spik till; an we agree
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
Some-whun wha-haits for meeeee!" on page 26

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
stealth-mode n start creepin, some-cunt wid let oot a nervous far on page 33

1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
’m waitin oan - Derek. . . some-fuckin-hing, the executive cun
1 matches

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