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Dialect details

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Orkney

Total words in Orkney dialect :99,230 (3.1% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 14,714 (14.8% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 8,532
Total words occurring more than once : 6,182
Locations within this dialect include:-
Finstown
Hackland

Number of writers : 34
1. Parkins, Hazel 24,280 words 24.47% of this dialect
2. Giles, Harry Josephine 17,214 words 17.35% of this dialect
3. Hall, Simon W. 9,395 words 9.47% of this dialect
4. Baikie, R. M. 5,246 words 5.29% of this dialect
5. Johnston, Barbara 4,820 words 4.86% of this dialect
6. Butler, Vera 4,670 words 4.71% of this dialect
7. Cormack, Kevin 4,520 words 4.56% of this dialect
8. Bruce, Lorraine 3,347 words 3.37% of this dialect
9. Grieve, Ingrid 3,215 words 3.24% of this dialect
10. Garson, Sheila 3,078 words 3.1% of this dialect
11. Norquoy, Greer 2,209 words 2.23% of this dialect
12. Orkney Voices Group 2,017 words 2.03% of this dialect
13. Grieve, Issy 1,953 words 1.97% of this dialect
14. Miller, Alison 1,750 words 1.76% of this dialect
15. Towrie, David 1,719 words 1.73% of this dialect
16. Sclater, Kathryn 536 words 0.54% of this dialect
17. Hollinrake, Fran Flett 467 words 0.47% of this dialect
18. Tait, Ruth 462 words 0.47% of this dialect
19. Lamb, Gregor 431 words 0.43% of this dialect
20. Skea, Bessie 406 words 0.41% of this dialect
21. Leonard, Ingrid 406 words 0.41% of this dialect
22. Brown, Moyra 233 words 0.23% of this dialect
23. Hall, Anja 207 words 0.21% of this dialect
24. Peace, Courtney 198 words 0.2% of this dialect
25. Flett, Alison 154 words 0.16% of this dialect
26. Hershaw, William 144 words 0.15% of this dialect
27. Russell, Morag 122 words 0.12% of this dialect
28. Hume, Caroline 110 words 0.11% of this dialect
29. West, Barbara 109 words 0.11% of this dialect
30. Mainland, Marlene 107 words 0.11% of this dialect
31. Cowan, Fiona A 90 words 0.09% of this dialect
32. Harris, Jane 70 words 0.07% of this dialect
33. Ljosland, Ragnhild 62 words 0.06% of this dialect
34. Forkin, Ellen 45 words 0.05% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 3
1. peediepuss 3,514 words 3.54% of this dialect
2. johnkmitchinson 440 words 0.44% of this dialect
3. HJosephineGiles 239 words 0.24% of this dialect

Number of Facebook people : 6
Total words on Facebook : 1,245 words, 1.25% of this dialect

Genres

2000 ................ - 5,246 words in total
2002 ......................................................................... - 23,942 words in total
2004 . - 154 words in total
2005 .... - 769 words in total
2010 .......... - 2,965 words in total
2013 . - 5 words in total
2014 .... - 775 words in total
2015 .......................... - 7,997 words in total
2016 ..... - 1,556 words in total
2017 ........... - 3,274 words in total
2018 .. - 343 words in total
2019 ..... - 1,046 words in total
2020 ........... - 3,563 words in total
2021 .................................................................................................................. - 37,081 words in total
2022 ................................ - 10,514 words in total
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