A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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South West (Galloway)

Total words in South West (Galloway) dialect :71,552 (2.3% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 12,858 (18% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 7,953
Total words occurring more than once : 4,905
Locations within this dialect include:-
Largs
Galloway
Stranraer
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries

Number of writers : 21
1. Paterson, Stuart A. 16,169 words 22.6% of this dialect
2. Haddow, Kris 8,651 words 12.09% of this dialect
3. McMillan, Hugh 6,691 words 9.35% of this dialect
4. Niven, Liz 5,640 words 7.88% of this dialect
5. Adamson, Donald 3,169 words 4.43% of this dialect
6. Tindal, Betty 2,658 words 3.71% of this dialect
7. McDonald, Hamish 2,542 words 3.55% of this dialect
8. Douglas, David 2,296 words 3.21% of this dialect
9. Curran, Doug 2,120 words 2.96% of this dialect
10. Neill, Josie 1,745 words 2.44% of this dialect
11. Bryden, Hugh 1,674 words 2.34% of this dialect
12. Ross, Derek 1,182 words 1.65% of this dialect
13. Scott, Hamish 1,155 words 1.61% of this dialect
14. Wilson, Rab 1,034 words 1.45% of this dialect
15. Burns, John 875 words 1.22% of this dialect
16. Evie 648 words 0.91% of this dialect
17. Watt, George T. 363 words 0.51% of this dialect
18. Drosten, John 362 words 0.51% of this dialect
19. Briggs, Susi 209 words 0.29% of this dialect
20. Harper, Emma 157 words 0.22% of this dialect
21. McClure, Alan 108 words 0.15% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 1
1. StuartPoet 12,104 words 16.92% of this dialect

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

Genres

2001 ................... - 4,293 words in total
2003 ........... - 2,542 words in total
2004 . - 109 words in total
2005 ...... - 1,110 words in total
2008 .... - 862 words in total
2009 ......................................................... - 13,391 words in total
2011 ....... - 1,537 words in total
2012 . - 56 words in total
2013 ... - 532 words in total
2015 ... - 648 words in total
2016 . - 94 words in total
2017 .. - 321 words in total
2020 .................................................... - 12,038 words in total
2021 ............................................. - 10,423 words in total
2022 ................................... - 8,172 words in total
2023 ................................................................. - 15,424 words in total
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