A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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Southern

Total words in dialect :96,020 (3% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 13,501 (14.1% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 7,779
Total words occurring more than once : 5,722
Locations within this dialect include:-
Selkirk
Roxburgh
Scottish Borders
Hawick
Dumfries
Borders

Number of writers : 10
1. Halfpenny, Cameron 26,653 words 27.76% of this dialect
2. Rodger, Matt 20,248 words 21.09% of this dialect
3. Purves, David 10,280 words 10.71% of this dialect
4. Thompson, James 5,308 words 5.53% of this dialect
5. Stevenson, Gerda 2,311 words 2.41% of this dialect
6. Neill, Willie 2,070 words 2.16% of this dialect
7. The Westender 2,026 words 2.11% of this dialect
8. Wilson, Rab 1,880 words 1.96% of this dialect
9. Tindal, Betty 1,335 words 1.39% of this dialect
10. Purdie, David C. 671 words 0.7% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 7
1. StuartPoet 12,104 words 12.61% of this dialect
2. MartyMacMurtrie 4,891 words 5.09% of this dialect
3. jamie_ginger 2,681 words 2.79% of this dialect
4. cammyrudkin 1,765 words 1.84% of this dialect
5. officialAliRed 1,305 words 1.36% of this dialect
6. Woodwinecoolers 314 words 0.33% of this dialect
7. projecthawick 178 words 0.19% 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 ...................... - 6,778 words in total
2011 . - 31 words in total
2012 ......... - 2,830 words in total
2013 . - 163 words in total
2015 ..................................................................................... - 26,662 words in total
2016 . - 8 words in total
2017 .. - 135 words in total
2018 . - 262 words in total
2019 .... - 1,256 words in total
2020 ........................................................ - 17,742 words in total
2021 .......... - 2,916 words in total
2022 . - 314 words in total
2023 ................. - 5,308 words in total
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