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The word 'sumbdy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sumbdyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 sumbdy in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
hone the police” An A hears sumbdy dybin, her pal probly, an she
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Tae sumbdy pit it in a poke. Dreams
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
all of a sudden, it wis as if sumbdy'd switched on a light bulb in
couldnae have cried her efter sumbdy in the faimly. Still, young y
ut when Alison's ma wrote tae sumbdy on the cooncil they had tae l
3 matches

General Central

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
fur there's aye sumbdy rowsting. on page 61

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
in through so it looked as if sumbdy’d sprinkled it, steidy lade
s daft, whit can you dae when sumbdy’s deid? Ah wondered if ah s
2 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
@MrMalky Awwwww ?????? seen sumbdy dae at in Berlin hauptbanhhof(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
s in the Balkans waeoot payin sumbdy a tax. A city tax here, a sta
1 matches

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