A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

Jump to Central Doric Shetland Orkney Ulster Southern

General Northern

Total words in General Northern dialect :223,607 (6.9% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 21,638 (9.7% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 11,839
Total words occurring more than once : 9,799
Locations within this dialect include:-
Brouch
Stonehaven
Aberdeen

Number of writers : 58
1. Smith, Alex 43,298 words 19.36% of this dialect
2. Whyte, Brian 26,258 words 11.74% of this dialect
3. McClure, Derrick J. 21,219 words 9.49% of this dialect
4. McGregor, Iain 7,970 words 3.56% of this dialect
5. Hamilton, Roddy 6,136 words 2.74% of this dialect
6. Blackhall, Sheena 5,987 words 2.68% of this dialect
7. McDonald, John 4,779 words 2.14% of this dialect
8. Lawrie, Alistair 4,609 words 2.06% of this dialect
9. Pacitti, Stephen 2,953 words 1.32% of this dialect
10. Robertson, George C. 2,595 words 1.16% of this dialect
11. Murdoch, Steve 2,385 words 1.07% of this dialect
12. Young, Morna 2,057 words 0.92% of this dialect
13. Mitchell, Rhona 1,997 words 0.89% of this dialect
14. Leslie, Deborah 1,993 words 0.89% of this dialect
15. Maitland, Andrew 1,993 words 0.89% of this dialect
16. Shearer, Gillian 1,918 words 0.86% of this dialect
17. Storrie Lewis, Jean 1,851 words 0.83% of this dialect
18. Mitchell, Ian R. 1,772 words 0.79% of this dialect
19. The Mannie Fae Unco 1,728 words 0.77% of this dialect
20. Gilbert, Jo 1,722 words 0.77% of this dialect
21. TheChielMeister 1,670 words 0.75% of this dialect
22. Gray, Kathleen 1,610 words 0.72% of this dialect
23. Johnston, Mary 1,590 words 0.71% of this dialect
24. Strachan, Shane 1,577 words 0.71% of this dialect
25. Gray, Kath 1,324 words 0.59% of this dialect
26. Devlin, Edwin 1,085 words 0.49% of this dialect
27. Wheeler, Leslie 1,032 words 0.46% of this dialect
28. Innes, Brian P. 918 words 0.41% of this dialect
29. Wood, Evelyn 916 words 0.41% of this dialect
30. Philip, George 706 words 0.32% of this dialect
31. McDonald, Charlie 664 words 0.3% of this dialect
32. Robertson, Sine 643 words 0.29% of this dialect
33. Kynoch, Douglas 517 words 0.23% of this dialect
34. Diansangu, Mae 512 words 0.23% of this dialect
35. Skinner, Alison C. 499 words 0.22% of this dialect
36. Christie, Hilary 408 words 0.18% of this dialect
37. Reid, Adeline 406 words 0.18% of this dialect
38. Stewart, Del 388 words 0.17% of this dialect
39. Coutts, Pete 386 words 0.17% of this dialect
40. Benzie, Lesley 327 words 0.15% of this dialect
41. Milligan, John 316 words 0.14% of this dialect
42. Bundy Broch 292 words 0.13% of this dialect
43. Chapman, Henry 283 words 0.13% of this dialect
44. Petrie, Kimberley 269 words 0.12% of this dialect
45. Noble, Brian 261 words 0.12% of this dialect
46. Carney, Don 232 words 0.1% of this dialect
47. Bolland, John 211 words 0.09% of this dialect
48. Templeton, Sheila 211 words 0.09% of this dialect
49. Wilkie, Dave 207 words 0.09% of this dialect
50. Smith, Derek 186 words 0.08% of this dialect
51. Faffe, Christina 167 words 0.07% of this dialect
52. Robertson, W. F. 159 words 0.07% of this dialect
53. Wilde, Jacqueline Jay 156 words 0.07% of this dialect
54. McBeath, Lorraine 129 words 0.06% of this dialect
55. Clark, F. E. 108 words 0.05% of this dialect
56. Nicol, Paul 98 words 0.04% of this dialect
57. Lawrie, Alastair 83 words 0.04% of this dialect
58. Cameron, Douglas 68 words 0.03% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 13
1. 72redz1903 12,284 words 5.49% of this dialect
2. fittiecrooners 11,439 words 5.12% of this dialect
3. cligeey 7,984 words 3.57% of this dialect
4. Franwella 5,613 words 2.51% of this dialect
5. beast_afc 4,892 words 2.19% of this dialect
6. Manuforti1968 4,680 words 2.09% of this dialect
7. Doric_Bananaman 3,680 words 1.65% of this dialect
8. daleser23 2,392 words 1.07% of this dialect
9. glenlivetloon 1,237 words 0.55% of this dialect
10. _DawnLeslie 1,175 words 0.53% of this dialect
11. AMaxwell54 952 words 0.43% of this dialect
12. JoanHenry7 893 words 0.4% of this dialect
13. sovereigndaisy 552 words 0.25% of this dialect

Number of Facebook people : 0
Total words on Facebook : 0 words, 0% of this dialect

Genres

2000 . - 593 words in total
2001 .......... - 7,317 words in total
2003 ........................................... - 31,398 words in total
2005 .............................. - 21,708 words in total
2006 .. - 548 words in total
2007 .. - 903 words in total
2008 ... - 1,540 words in total
2009 . - 372 words in total
2010 ........... - 7,415 words in total
2011 ......... - 4,969 words in total
2012 ...... - 4,237 words in total
2013 ....... - 3,999 words in total
2014 . - 596 words in total
2015 ....... - 4,329 words in total
2016 ....... - 4,366 words in total
2017 .... - 2,957 words in total
2018 ............. - 9,054 words in total
2019 ...... - 4,006 words in total
2020 ............................................................................ - 55,166 words in total
2021 ....................................... - 27,650 words in total
2022 ........... - 6,775 words in total
2023 ................................. - 23,599 words in total
2024 . - 110 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 22
1. self-published 43,298 words
2. Lallans Magazine 34,420 words
3. Independently published 26,258 words
4. Evertype 25,998 words
5. Doric Books 17,631 words
6. Drunk Muse Press 4,317 words
7. Facebook 2,500 words
8. Scots Language Center 2,057 words
9. unco.scot 1,728 words
10. youtube.com 1,670 words
11. Itchy Coo 1,422 words
12. Scottish Book Trust 1,112 words
13. Grampian Regional Council 593 words
14. Jas Gaesham 549 words
15. Scots Hoose 439 words
16. bandcamp 386 words
17. northwordsnow.co.uk 383 words
18. YouTube 292 words
19. Dictionaries of the Scots Language 285 words
20. Argo Publishing 232 words
21. Scots Language Centre 156 words
22. Eemis Stane 108 words