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Dialect details

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Doric

Total words in dialect :655,748 (20.8% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 42,856 (6.5% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 22,045
Total words occurring more than once : 20,811
Locations within this dialect include:-
Brouch
Banff
Aberdeen
Inverurie
Keith
Buckie
Forres
St Andrews
Montrose
Aberdeenshire
Banffshire
Stonehaven
Alford
Fraserburgh
Troup
Boddam
Dumfries
Arbroath
Caithness

Number of writers : 111
1. Blackhall, Sheena 81,060 words 12.36% of this dialect
2. Leslie, Deborah 75,637 words 11.53% of this dialect
3. Smith, Alex 43,298 words 6.6% of this dialect
4. Pacitti, Stephen 35,163 words 5.36% of this dialect
5. Hay, Gordon M. 30,594 words 4.67% of this dialect
6. Hutchison, Pat 27,930 words 4.26% of this dialect
7. Byrne, Catherine 26,694 words 4.07% of this dialect
8. Whyte, Brian 26,258 words 4% of this dialect
9. Morrison, Gordon 26,054 words 3.97% of this dialect
10. McClure, Derrick J. 21,219 words 3.24% of this dialect
11. Kynoch, Douglas 14,538 words 2.22% of this dialect
12. Grant, Margaret 14,216 words 2.17% of this dialect
13. Uri, Antonia 13,288 words 2.03% of this dialect
14. McGregor, Iain 10,125 words 1.54% of this dialect
15. Strachan, Shane 9,328 words 1.42% of this dialect
16. Hamilton, Roddy 6,136 words 0.94% of this dialect
17. Lawrie, Alistair 5,308 words 0.81% of this dialect
18. Vettese, Raymond 4,866 words 0.74% of this dialect
19. McDonald, John 4,773 words 0.73% of this dialect
20. Benzie, Lesley 4,504 words 0.69% of this dialect
21. Cameron, Alan 3,901 words 0.59% of this dialect
22. Murdoch, Steve 3,747 words 0.57% of this dialect
23. Goodall, Phyllis J. 3,500 words 0.53% of this dialect
24. Johnson, Mary 3,467 words 0.53% of this dialect
25. Johnston, Mary 3,145 words 0.48% of this dialect
26. Thom, Bill 2,800 words 0.43% of this dialect
27. Robertson, George C. 2,595 words 0.4% of this dialect
28. Shearer, Gillian 2,253 words 0.34% of this dialect
29. Young, Morna 2,057 words 0.31% of this dialect
30. McDonald, Charlie 2,000 words 0.3% of this dialect
31. Mitchell, Rhona 1,997 words 0.3% of this dialect
32. Maitland, Andrew 1,993 words 0.3% of this dialect
33. Elphinstone Institute 1,907 words 0.29% of this dialect
34. Storrie Lewis, Jean 1,851 words 0.28% of this dialect
35. Mitchell, Ian R. 1,772 words 0.27% of this dialect
36. The Flying Pigs 1,765 words 0.27% of this dialect
37. The Mannie Fae Unco 1,728 words 0.26% of this dialect
38. Gilbert, Jo 1,722 words 0.26% of this dialect
39. TheChielMeister 1,670 words 0.25% of this dialect
40. Gray, Kathleen 1,610 words 0.25% of this dialect
41. Ireland, Mark 1,372 words 0.21% of this dialect
42. Gray, Kath 1,324 words 0.2% of this dialect
43. Manson, John 1,255 words 0.19% of this dialect
44. Irvine, Owen 1,107 words 0.17% of this dialect
45. Devlin, Edwin 1,085 words 0.17% of this dialect
46. Diansangu, Mae 1,064 words 0.16% of this dialect
47. Wheeler, Leslie 1,032 words 0.16% of this dialect
48. Johnstone, Ian 946 words 0.14% of this dialect
49. Innes, Brian P. 918 words 0.14% of this dialect
50. Wood, Evelyn 916 words 0.14% of this dialect
51. Gauld, Ilene 893 words 0.14% of this dialect
52. Wilson, Katie 834 words 0.13% of this dialect
53. Rumbles, Brodie-Anne 831 words 0.13% of this dialect
54. Hardie, Buff 784 words 0.12% of this dialect
55. Harvey, Lewis 777 words 0.12% of this dialect
56. Philip, George 706 words 0.11% of this dialect
57. Shepherd, Robbie 679 words 0.1% of this dialect
58. Ritchie, John 653 words 0.1% of this dialect
59. Robson, Euan 647 words 0.1% of this dialect
60. Robertson, Sine 643 words 0.1% of this dialect
61. Johnston, Shaun 641 words 0.1% of this dialect
62. Dunnett, Nathan 641 words 0.1% of this dialect
63. Crawford, Jack 623 words 0.1% of this dialect
64. Martin, Keiron 612 words 0.09% of this dialect
65. Fowler, Ross 607 words 0.09% of this dialect
66. Bowie, Tyler 580 words 0.09% of this dialect
67. Fairbairn, Jamie 554 words 0.08% of this dialect
68. Abel, Charlie 548 words 0.08% of this dialect
69. Leslie, Dawn 544 words 0.08% of this dialect
70. Harper, Norman 540 words 0.08% of this dialect
71. Riddell, Conor 528 words 0.08% of this dialect
72. Skinner, Alison C. 499 words 0.08% of this dialect
73. Harper, Edith 417 words 0.06% of this dialect
74. Christie, Hilary 408 words 0.06% of this dialect
75. Reid, Adeline 406 words 0.06% of this dialect
76. Stewart, Del 388 words 0.06% of this dialect
77. Coutts, Pete 386 words 0.06% of this dialect
78. Philp, George 368 words 0.06% of this dialect
79. McArthur, Kaydi 363 words 0.06% of this dialect
80. Milligan, John 316 words 0.05% of this dialect
81. Bundy Broch 292 words 0.04% of this dialect
82. Kerr, Oliwia, Sarah and Amber 292 words 0.04% of this dialect
83. Chapman, Henry 283 words 0.04% of this dialect
84. Cara, Dillon, Ami and Travis 270 words 0.04% of this dialect
85. Petrie, Kimberley 269 words 0.04% of this dialect
86. Noble, Brian 261 words 0.04% of this dialect
87. Rebecca, Casey and Stephen 251 words 0.04% of this dialect
88. Mitchell, Kiera 251 words 0.04% of this dialect
89. Wilson, Heidi and Isla 240 words 0.04% of this dialect
90. Banff Academy 234 words 0.04% of this dialect
91. Carney, Don 232 words 0.04% of this dialect
92. Bolland, John 211 words 0.03% of this dialect
93. Templeton, Sheila 211 words 0.03% of this dialect
94. Wilkie, Dave 207 words 0.03% of this dialect
95. Thain, Gianna 197 words 0.03% of this dialect
96. Smith, Derek 186 words 0.03% of this dialect
97. Faffe, Christina 167 words 0.03% of this dialect
98. Robertson, W. F. 159 words 0.02% of this dialect
99. McBeath, Lorraine 129 words 0.02% of this dialect
100. Robb, Lydia 113 words 0.02% of this dialect
101. Murray, Campbell 112 words 0.02% of this dialect
102. Clark, F. E. 108 words 0.02% of this dialect
103. Cormack, Liam 106 words 0.02% of this dialect
104. Findlater, Mark 99 words 0.02% of this dialect
105. Freeman, Rebekah 98 words 0.01% of this dialect
106. Nicol, Paul 98 words 0.01% of this dialect
107. Lawrie, Alastair 83 words 0.01% of this dialect
108. Cameron, Douglas 68 words 0.01% of this dialect
109. Legge, Robert 54 words 0.01% of this dialect
110. Innes, Michelle 39 words 0.01% of this dialect
111. West, Joyce 35 words 0.01% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 20
1. DoricPhrases 13,995 words 2.13% of this dialect
2. 72redz1903 12,284 words 1.87% of this dialect
3. fittiecrooners 11,439 words 1.74% of this dialect
4. FaeFoggie 8,318 words 1.27% of this dialect
5. cligeey 7,984 words 1.22% of this dialect
6. JamieFairbairn1 6,072 words 0.93% of this dialect
7. Franwella 5,613 words 0.86% of this dialect
8. beast_afc 4,892 words 0.75% of this dialect
9. Manuforti1968 4,680 words 0.71% of this dialect
10. Doric_Bananaman 3,680 words 0.56% of this dialect
11. d_anderson878 3,084 words 0.47% of this dialect
12. daleser23 2,392 words 0.36% of this dialect
13. McGoo1888 1,315 words 0.2% of this dialect
14. glenlivetloon 1,237 words 0.19% of this dialect
15. _DawnLeslie 1,175 words 0.18% of this dialect
16. AMaxwell54 952 words 0.15% of this dialect
17. JoanHenry7 893 words 0.14% of this dialect
18. sovereigndaisy 552 words 0.08% of this dialect
19. JamesAmcvean 410 words 0.06% of this dialect
20. Woodside Wullie 160 words 0.02% of this dialect

Number of Facebook people : 8
Total words on Facebook : 2,362 words, 0.36% of this dialect

Genres

2000 ..... - 6,395 words in total
2001 ..... - 8,847 words in total
2002 . - 2,129 words in total
2003 ................ - 32,430 words in total
2004 .............................. - 63,565 words in total
2005 ........... - 22,379 words in total
2006 ...................... - 44,370 words in total
2007 ........... - 23,191 words in total
2008 ...... - 9,706 words in total
2009 ... - 4,764 words in total
2010 ....... - 13,406 words in total
2011 .................... - 40,601 words in total
2012 .................. - 36,702 words in total
2013 .......... - 17,897 words in total
2014 ............................ - 55,973 words in total
2015 ......... - 14,551 words in total
2016 ............. - 21,442 words in total
2017 .................. - 32,829 words in total
2018 ............ - 18,194 words in total
2019 .......... - 13,786 words in total
2020 ............................................ - 90,048 words in total
2021 ................. - 31,856 words in total
2022 ......... - 10,974 words in total
2023 .................... - 38,501 words in total
2024 .. - 1,212 words in total
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