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The word 'somebodie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
somebodieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4139
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 10.1 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of somebodie in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Holton, Brian Lallans 71 - O Niver ti Dree Corruption Mair, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
thing A’ve dune for years. Somebodie’s got ti see the corp up th
1 matches

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 59 - Joukene Poukerie, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
hey saw ye haudin yersell, an somebodie cries, She’s hurt her fud,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ane that wis on. Juist shaws somebodie at STV maun hae richt guid ta
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
therin. On Seturday the'll be somebodie frae the Scottish Executive m
1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Mary: Somebodie o his likenin - maybe. on page 35

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
™ or ‘annoyed at’ sowt or somebodie.
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
t tae read mair for fear that somebodie wad clype on me tae oor new m
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
Wait, did somebodie firget tae defrost the Gordon(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
a dauchter. An an noo I need somebodie tae care fur ma Daniel." on page 6
lik the comfort o knowin that somebodie else was at hame. on page 28

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
owk thair wull see that ye ir somebodie! Whaiver sets hïssel up as s on page 95

2 matches

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