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Dialect details

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Shetland

Total words in Shetland dialect :168,166 (5.3% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 16,610 (9.9% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 9,097
Total words occurring more than once : 7,513
Locations within this dialect include:-
Yell
Whalsay
Shetland
Brae
Lerwick
Bressay
Voe

Number of writers : 34
1. Johnson, Laureen 30,388 words 18.07% of this dialect
2. Fraser, Barbara 26,210 words 15.59% of this dialect
3. Greig, Charles 19,453 words 11.57% of this dialect
4. I Hear Dee 17,387 words 10.34% of this dialect
5. De Luca, Christine 14,391 words 8.56% of this dialect
6. Watt, Valerie 10,828 words 6.44% of this dialect
7. Tait, John M 7,960 words 4.73% of this dialect
8. Cumming, John 2,797 words 1.66% of this dialect
9. Jamieson, Robert Alan 2,516 words 1.5% of this dialect
10. Williamson, Christie 1,804 words 1.07% of this dialect
11. Peterson, George P.S. 1,522 words 0.91% of this dialect
12. Ratter, Peter 1,420 words 0.84% of this dialect
13. Sutherland, Hazel 1,412 words 0.84% of this dialect
14. MacInnes, Morag 1,268 words 0.75% of this dialect
15. Sandison, Iris 1,253 words 0.75% of this dialect
16. Nicholson, Hannah 1,083 words 0.64% of this dialect
17. Sinclair, James 935 words 0.56% of this dialect
18. Isbister, Sonny 752 words 0.45% of this dialect
19. Laurenson, Hannah Lisa 693 words 0.41% of this dialect
20. Priest, Ena 683 words 0.41% of this dialect
21. Walterson, Barbara 652 words 0.39% of this dialect
22. Watt, Roseanne 541 words 0.32% of this dialect
23. Nicholson, James 532 words 0.32% of this dialect
24. Mainland, Jim 296 words 0.18% of this dialect
25. Walterson, Vaila 288 words 0.17% of this dialect
26. Sinclair, Lise 259 words 0.15% of this dialect
27. Sutherland, Stella 241 words 0.14% of this dialect
28. Ritch, Paolo 211 words 0.13% of this dialect
29. Irvine, Chloe 174 words 0.1% of this dialect
30. Graham, Laurence 146 words 0.09% of this dialect
31. Hall, Nat 124 words 0.07% of this dialect
32. Tait, Christian 112 words 0.07% of this dialect
33. Mundair, Raman 77 words 0.05% of this dialect
34. Manson, Finnley 66 words 0.04% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 6
1. helenmoncrieff 7,025 words 4.18% of this dialect
2. tattooedselkie 3,285 words 1.95% of this dialect
3. RedValkyrie84 2,624 words 1.56% of this dialect
4. Julie_Dennison 2,620 words 1.56% of this dialect
5. shaetlan_rose 1,518 words 0.9% of this dialect
6. HazelTindall 292 words 0.17% of this dialect

Number of Facebook people : 16
Total words on Facebook : 2,328 words, 1.38% of this dialect

Genres

2000 . - 146 words in total
2001 .......... - 4,946 words in total
2002 ......... - 4,454 words in total
2003 ...... - 2,612 words in total
2004 .............. - 7,341 words in total
2005 ............. - 7,028 words in total
2006 ..... - 1,850 words in total
2007 .. - 608 words in total
2008 ............ - 5,683 words in total
2009 ........................................ - 21,952 words in total
2010 .................. - 8,508 words in total
2011 .. - 698 words in total
2012 ...................................................... - 29,575 words in total
2013 .. - 754 words in total
2014 ....... - 3,404 words in total
2015 .. - 636 words in total
2016 .... - 2,238 words in total
2017 ........ - 3,202 words in total
2018 ..... - 2,265 words in total
2019 ......... - 4,011 words in total
2020 ......... - 4,870 words in total
2021 ............................................................. - 33,305 words in total
2022 ................................. - 17,873 words in total
2023 . - 207 words in total
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