A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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South East (Borders)

Total words in South East (Borders) dialect :79,449 (2.5% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 11,280 (14.2% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 6,355
Total words occurring more than once : 4,925
Locations within this dialect include:-
Galashiels
Selkirk
Roxburgh
Scottish Borders
Hawick
Borders

Number of writers : 8
1. Halfpenny, Cameron 26,653 words 33.55% of this dialect
2. Rodger, Matt 20,248 words 25.49% of this dialect
3. Purves, David 10,280 words 12.94% of this dialect
4. Thompson, James 5,308 words 6.68% of this dialect
5. Stevenson, Gerda 2,311 words 2.91% of this dialect
6. The Westender 2,026 words 2.55% of this dialect
7. Holton, Brian 1,550 words 1.95% of this dialect
8. Purdie, David C. 117 words 0.15% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 5
1. MartyMacMurtrie 4,891 words 6.16% of this dialect
2. jamie_ginger 2,681 words 3.37% of this dialect
3. cammyrudkin 1,765 words 2.22% of this dialect
4. officialAliRed 1,305 words 1.64% of this dialect
5. Woodwinecoolers 314 words 0.4% of this dialect

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

Genres

2003 .................................................................................................. - 25,598 words in total
2004 ... - 599 words in total
2005 .......... - 2,511 words in total
2007 ....... - 1,658 words in total
2008 ...... - 1,249 words in total
2009 .... - 939 words in total
2011 . - 31 words in total
2012 ........... - 2,830 words in total
2013 . - 163 words in total
2015 ............................................................................................................ - 28,212 words in total
2016 . - 8 words in total
2017 .. - 135 words in total
2018 . - 239 words in total
2019 ..... - 1,219 words in total
2020 ....................... - 5,839 words in total
2021 ........... - 2,597 words in total
2022 .. - 314 words in total
2023 ..................... - 5,308 words in total
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