A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sumwhere'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sumwhereOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.175
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 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 sumwhere in Corpus

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(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
Sumwhere in the distance ah heard a si on page 7

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
if u dinnae get an offer fae sumwhere - good luck (2020) twitter link
illiant m8 - aye am in there sumwhere lol (2020) twitter link
theshMsdi sure its on twitter sumwhere - was a crackin strike btw (2021) twitter link

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
intae care An’ sen’ thum sumwhere remote, lit’ Crieff.
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
stramash. Park yer erse doon sumwhere quiet an' stop runnin' aroond on page

1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
’s political turmoil? Or gang sumwhere else oan oorsel?(2020)