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Dialect details

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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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