A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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Mid Northern A

Total words in Mid Northern A dialect :275,438 (9.1% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 22,816 (8.3% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 11,575
Total words occurring more than once : 11,241
Locations within this dialect include:-
Banff
Inverurie
Keith
Buckie
Aberdeenshire
Banffshire
Aberdeen
Alford
Fraserburgh
Troup

Number of writers : 32
1. Leslie, Deborah 73,644 words 26.74% of this dialect
2. Blackhall, Sheena 72,497 words 26.32% of this dialect
3. Hay, Gordon M. 30,594 words 11.11% of this dialect
4. Hutchison, Pat 27,930 words 10.14% of this dialect
5. Grant, Margaret 14,216 words 5.16% of this dialect
6. Cameron, Alan 3,901 words 1.42% of this dialect
7. Goodall, Phyllis J. 3,500 words 1.27% of this dialect
8. Johnson, Mary 3,467 words 1.26% of this dialect
9. Thom, Bill 2,800 words 1.02% of this dialect
10. Elphinstone Institute 1,907 words 0.69% of this dialect
11. Johnston, Mary 1,555 words 0.56% of this dialect
12. Ireland, Mark 1,372 words 0.5% of this dialect
13. Irvine, Owen 1,107 words 0.4% of this dialect
14. Johnstone, Ian 946 words 0.34% of this dialect
15. Gauld, Ilene 893 words 0.32% of this dialect
16. Wilson, Katie 834 words 0.3% of this dialect
17. Rumbles, Brodie-Anne 831 words 0.3% of this dialect
18. Shepherd, Robbie 679 words 0.25% of this dialect
19. Harper, Norman 540 words 0.2% of this dialect
20. Noble, Brian 465 words 0.17% of this dialect
21. Harper, Edith 417 words 0.15% of this dialect
22. McArthur, Kaydi 363 words 0.13% of this dialect
23. Shearer, Gillian 335 words 0.12% of this dialect
24. Mitchell, Kiera 251 words 0.09% of this dialect
25. Wilson, Heidi and Isla 240 words 0.09% of this dialect
26. Banff Academy 234 words 0.08% of this dialect
27. Thain, Gianna 197 words 0.07% of this dialect
28. Cormack, Liam 106 words 0.04% of this dialect
29. Findlater, Mark 99 words 0.04% of this dialect
30. Freeman, Rebekah 98 words 0.04% of this dialect
31. Legge, Robert 54 words 0.02% of this dialect
32. Innes, Michelle 39 words 0.01% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 3
1. DoricPhrases 13,995 words 5.08% of this dialect
2. FaeFoggie 8,318 words 3.02% of this dialect
3. JamieFairbairn1 6,072 words 2.2% of this dialect

Number of Facebook people : 6
Total words on Facebook : 942 words, 0.34% of this dialect

Genres

2000 ...... - 4,135 words in total
2001 .. - 1,530 words in total
2004 .................................................................... - 61,530 words in total
2006 ................. - 15,216 words in total
2007 ......................... - 22,288 words in total
2011 ................................... - 31,218 words in total
2012 ..................................... - 32,465 words in total
2013 ..... - 2,979 words in total
2014 ....................... - 20,226 words in total
2015 .. - 949 words in total
2016 ............... - 12,654 words in total
2017 ............................. - 24,744 words in total
2018 ....... - 5,381 words in total
2019 ........... - 8,426 words in total
2020 .................. - 13,865 words in total
2021 .... - 2,686 words in total
2022 .. - 930 words in total
2023 ................ - 14,216 words in total
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