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The word 'sumwye'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sumwyeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.272
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 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 4.4 1 1
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 sumwye in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
t languages), an dialects faa sumwye in-atween. bit mutually intel on page 12
a tongue maks a trillin soond sumwye idda mooth; wi fricatives da on page 25
sumwye or idder, laek come, ging, ha on page 76
tae dø sumthin tae da object sumwye: on page 83
sumwye idder idda sentence, laek Joh on page 92
Also on pages 95
6 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
caad. Mrs McLeod said it wis sumwye in Spain but ye cuidnae tell on page 40

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