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The word 'sometheen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sometheenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.95510
ORK - Orkney 308 31 9
SHD - Shetland 139.5 24 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 sometheen in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Orkney Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2015 ISBN: 978-1785300066) Orkney, weans
me puggie is rummlan, I waant sometheen good! on page 21

1 matches

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
Tae wir door withoot sometheen in his pooch: on page 40
An sometheen else I'll say tae thee forbye on page 42

2 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I thowt there must be sometheen there that I could surely try on page 3
star-sign canna mak you intae sometheen that you're no on page 10
heust tae tell you that hid's sometheen men and weeman dae at night. on page 11
ir o the opinion that there's sometheen most terrible sad on page 42
t forty, there's bound tae be sometheen amiss. on page 43
Also on pages 50
6 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Sometheen taks flight, on page 4

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
sometheen huge jist below the surfeece on page 35

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
hang me, efter a week or two sometheen erupted oot o hid! Noo Davie' on page 37

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
t hid wis haerd tae ken whaar sometheen started an ended and even the on page 14
dae they sense sometheen's amiss? on page 144

2 matches

Parkins, Hazel Lallans 67 - Fower Poems efter Rilke, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Orkney, poetry
coorse sometheen bi wheech aa that wis greed s on page 58

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
clickbait. This post is aboot sometheen else. It’s aboot pittan up
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
seems tae be productive, but sometheen haes been lost, too. We make
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
t he noticed the first sign o sometheen unkan. A cat, readan a map. F
s were caad oot o his mind by sometheen else aaltaegethir. As he sat
were obviously collectan for sometheen … aye, that wid be it. The
rers as if he waanted tae say sometheen tae them, but thowt better o
s no good. He’d hiv tae say sometheen tae her. He cleared his thrap
11 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
es at whan yir writan against sometheen yir defined bi hid teu.
1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
kent afore – hid’s likely sometheen ye might hiv posted/seen hid

@peediepuss tweeted
meenit! I suppose hid wid be sometheen like 'pleece' ,wae yin domina (2021) twitter link

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ny ane at da wark spakk aboot sometheen dey wir seen ipo TV, he aye j on page 5
ot a dis chair, I wid gie him sometheen ta gowl aboot.' Gude kens wha on page 14
na mairried,' he said, 'Dat's sometheen we're hedd ta get used wi, wh on page 17
e aye bocht his peerie sister sometheen special. Yun set a Russian do on page 18
"Cood du no a gotten her sometheen better, sometheen wi a bit a on page 24
Also on pages 28, 37, 39, 42, 51, 53, 55, 56, 58, 64, 72, 73, 74
24 matches

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