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Dialect details

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(South) East Central

Total words in (South) East Central dialect :386,245 (12.3% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 32,084 (8.3% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 16,585
Total words occurring more than once : 15,499
Locations within this dialect include:-
Fife
East Lothian
Perth
Kyle
Kirkcaldy
Dunfermline
East Central
Central
Stirling
Musselburgh
Edinburgh
Ormiston
Linlithgow
Ceres
Lumphinnans
East Coast
Lothian
Bathgate
Midlothian

Number of writers : 43
1. Fairnie, Robert 65,535 words 16.97% of this dialect
2. Burnett, Colin 53,079 words 13.74% of this dialect
3. Forde, Iain W D 26,728 words 6.92% of this dialect
4. Fleemin, Sandy 24,005 words 6.21% of this dialect
5. Paisley, Janet 20,086 words 5.2% of this dialect
6. Purdie, David C. 15,302 words 3.96% of this dialect
7. Townsley, Jane 15,259 words 3.95% of this dialect
8. Waddell, John 14,963 words 3.87% of this dialect
9. Hubbard, Tom 13,565 words 3.51% of this dialect
10. Muir, Glenn 12,951 words 3.35% of this dialect
11. Montador, Eileen 10,622 words 2.75% of this dialect
12. Farrow, Kenneth D. 6,695 words 1.73% of this dialect
13. Connor, Charles P. 6,680 words 1.73% of this dialect
14. Crawford, Ross 5,380 words 1.39% of this dialect
15. Clark, Sara 4,990 words 1.29% of this dialect
16. Morton, Elaine 3,920 words 1.01% of this dialect
17. Douglas, Sheila 3,193 words 0.83% of this dialect
18. Kay, Billy 2,969 words 0.77% of this dialect
19. McAlpine, Joan 2,544 words 0.66% of this dialect
20. Calder, Bob 2,348 words 0.61% of this dialect
21. Handy, Robbie 2,235 words 0.58% of this dialect
22. Malgrati, Paul 1,968 words 0.51% of this dialect
23. Hershaw, William 1,909 words 0.49% of this dialect
24. Moodie, Gordon D. 1,624 words 0.42% of this dialect
25. Peffers, Bob 1,469 words 0.38% of this dialect
26. Chalmers, Aimee 1,343 words 0.35% of this dialect
27. Forrest, Liam 1,175 words 0.3% of this dialect
28. MacDonald, Bo 1,109 words 0.29% of this dialect
29. Holton, Brian 1,067 words 0.28% of this dialect
30. Gilmour, Rosie 1,018 words 0.26% of this dialect
31. McFarlane, Ishbel 827 words 0.21% of this dialect
32. McKinlay, Kieran 820 words 0.21% of this dialect
33. Letford, William 663 words 0.17% of this dialect
34. Jamie, Kathleen 381 words 0.1% of this dialect
35. Grubb, Adrian 371 words 0.1% of this dialect
36. McLachlan, Jack 341 words 0.09% of this dialect
37. Lamb, Darcie 240 words 0.06% of this dialect
38. Duncan, Robert 176 words 0.05% of this dialect
39. Le Marie, Nicole 89 words 0.02% of this dialect
40. Lawrenson, Dorothy 81 words 0.02% of this dialect
41. Stephenson, Michael 70 words 0.02% of this dialect
42. Stirling, Alison 51 words 0.01% of this dialect
43. St Luke's Primary Schuil, Midlothian 34 words 0.01% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 3
1. kennethbryce184 52,344 words 13.55% of this dialect
2. DavidJWood2 3,800 words 0.98% of this dialect
3. ricky_ballboy 226 words 0.06% of this dialect

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

Genres

2000 .......................... - 31,946 words in total
2001 ..................... - 25,447 words in total
2002 .................... - 24,301 words in total
2003 ....................................... - 47,760 words in total
2004 .................... - 23,679 words in total
2005 ..... - 4,672 words in total
2006 ....... - 7,369 words in total
2007 ........... - 12,113 words in total
2008 ............. - 15,537 words in total
2009 .... - 3,951 words in total
2010 . - 738 words in total
2012 .. - 544 words in total
2013 ..... - 4,345 words in total
2014 ............... - 16,929 words in total
2015 ....... - 7,451 words in total
2016 .......... - 9,616 words in total
2017 ............... - 16,992 words in total
2018 ...... - 6,958 words in total
2019 ..... - 3,368 words in total
2020 ................................. - 40,285 words in total
2021 ............................................................. - 76,684 words in total
2022 .... - 2,502 words in total
2023 .... - 3,058 words in total
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