A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts
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Jump to Central Doric Shetland Orkney Ulster Southern
West Central
Total words in West Central dialect :214,454 (6.8% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 20,654 (9.6% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 11,282
Total words occurring more than once : 9,372
Locations within this dialect include:-
East Dunbartonshire
North Lanarkshire
Bellshill
Buckie
Glasgow
North Ayrshire
Greenock
Netherlee
Saltcoats
Turriff
Ardrossan
Kilmarnock
Aryshire
Dumfries
Renfrew
Prestwick
New Cumnock
Hamilton
Number of writers : 29
1. Percy, Ely |
71,820 words |
33.49% of this dialect |
2. Donovan, Anne |
38,619 words |
18.01% of this dialect |
3. Wilson, Rab |
22,530 words |
10.51% of this dialect |
4. Farrow, Kenneth D. |
19,180 words |
8.94% of this dialect |
5. Clark, Thomas |
11,183 words |
5.21% of this dialect |
6. Philips, Cally |
9,723 words |
4.53% of this dialect |
7. Shoor Caan, Angus |
6,842 words |
3.19% of this dialect |
8. Calderwood, Lynsey |
4,272 words |
1.99% of this dialect |
9. Hardie, George |
3,432 words |
1.6% of this dialect |
10. Hodgart, John |
2,735 words |
1.28% of this dialect |
11. Kirk Jn, Albert |
2,287 words |
1.07% of this dialect |
12. Neill, Willie |
2,070 words |
0.97% of this dialect |
13. Bates, Gregor |
1,917 words |
0.89% of this dialect |
14. Douglas, Sheila |
1,495 words |
0.7% of this dialect |
15. Campbell, Karen |
1,446 words |
0.67% of this dialect |
16. Connor, Bailey |
1,384 words |
0.65% of this dialect |
17. Mortimer, Cara |
1,356 words |
0.63% of this dialect |
18. Alston, Connor |
1,268 words |
0.59% of this dialect |
19. Nicol, Alissa |
1,221 words |
0.57% of this dialect |
20. Davidson, Alistair |
1,205 words |
0.56% of this dialect |
21. Sutherland, Hope |
953 words |
0.44% of this dialect |
22. Pennie, Len |
899 words |
0.42% of this dialect |
23. Sands, Finn |
508 words |
0.24% of this dialect |
24. Kay, Billy |
469 words |
0.22% of this dialect |
25. Cunningham, Liam |
435 words |
0.2% of this dialect |
26. Lochhead, Liz |
380 words |
0.18% of this dialect |
27. Steele, Gregor |
376 words |
0.18% of this dialect |
28. Wilson, Lucy |
195 words |
0.09% of this dialect |
29. McDonald, Alistair |
119 words |
0.06% of this dialect |
Number of twitter people : 2
1. annieones |
2,652 words |
1.24% of this dialect |
2. MizLiot |
1,483 words |
0.69% of this dialect |
Number of Facebook people : 0
Total words on Facebook : 0 words, 0% of this dialect
Genres
2001 ..... - 2,154 words in total
2004 . - 119 words in total
2005 .... - 2,007 words in total
2006 .................................. - 23,218 words in total
2007 ..... - 3,192 words in total
2008 ........... - 7,137 words in total
2009 ........... - 6,865 words in total
2010 ...... - 3,098 words in total
2012 ........... - 6,761 words in total
2013 ......... - 5,644 words in total
2015 .. - 877 words in total
2016 .............. - 9,480 words in total
2017 ........... - 6,855 words in total
2018 ..... - 3,370 words in total
2019 ......................................................... - 39,967 words in total
2020 ........... - 7,004 words in total
2021 ................................................................................................................. - 78,909 words in total
2022 .............. - 7,797 words in total
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