A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

somewan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 6.4 0 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences1413 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of somewan 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.

Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Ah regret no meldin masel tae somewan on page 21
while somewan shaws pics o thair newly writ on page 39
that somewan feels the need on page 45

3 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Growlin, 'Gin somewan follaes me, Ah'll crucify the on page 15

1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
on, bit if ah wis bored an’ somewan cam up wi’ a guid idea ah w
se that ah shud huv jist telt somewan back then an’ ah feel guilt
2 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
Somethin tells Me somewan knows whit’s comin and dusne(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
h've bin watchin a film whaur somewan's keepin watch or searchin fe(2020) search twitter
cannae "fear fer yer life" if somewan's runnin awa fae ye. It wis r(2020) search twitter
nd jury members. Polis killin somewan in thur ane bed seems like a (2020) search twitter
e watch, but if Howard wantit somewan wha'd rush thru the investiga(2020) search twitter
emma's makeup? She luiks like somewan's slapped her hard in the pus(2020) search twitter
and 1 other occurrences.

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
Somewan has let thon Ben Lowry eejit (2018) search twitter