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The word 'somewhur'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
somewhurOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 2 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of somewhur in Corpus

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General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
in Scotland but I'd relocate somewhur warm and with continual sunsh(2015)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
x: maybae A'Il see it writ up somewhur." on page 10
"- es lang is A git somewhur," Alice explained. on page 63

2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
e, tae flail an spalter aboot somewhur in wer heids, wattin the broo
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Bolton, Angus Yarns 3 - Ae apologie fur ae fish / Clearin tha scroag on a winter morning, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Balligan, poetry
Somewhur aloo nichtsum waves
1 matches

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