A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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Aberdeen

Total words in Aberdeen dialect :93,486 (2.9% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 12,175 (13% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 6,874
Total words occurring more than once : 5,301
Locations within this dialect include:-
Peterhead
Aberdeen

Number of writers : 16
1. Pacitti, Stephen 32,210 words 34.45% of this dialect
2. Uri, Antonia 14,300 words 15.3% of this dialect
3. Kynoch, Douglas 14,021 words 15% of this dialect
4. Strachan, Shane 10,653 words 11.4% of this dialect
5. Benzie, Lesley 4,177 words 4.47% of this dialect
6. Morrison Murray, Harold 4,089 words 4.37% of this dialect
7. Lawrie, Alistair 3,826 words 4.09% of this dialect
8. McGregor, Iain 2,155 words 2.31% of this dialect
9. Blackhall, Sheena 2,129 words 2.28% of this dialect
10. The Flying Pigs 1,765 words 1.89% of this dialect
11. McDonald, Charlie 1,336 words 1.43% of this dialect
12. Hardie, Buff 784 words 0.84% of this dialect
13. Abel, Charlie 548 words 0.59% of this dialect
14. Leslie, Dawn 544 words 0.58% of this dialect
15. Philp, George 368 words 0.39% of this dialect
16. Murray, Campbell 112 words 0.12% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 1
1. Woodside Wullie 160 words 0.17% of this dialect

Number of Facebook people : 1
Total words on Facebook : 309 words, 0.33% of this dialect

Genres

2000 ...... - 1,667 words in total
2002 ....... - 2,129 words in total
2003 .. - 420 words in total
2005 .. - 558 words in total
2006 ......... - 2,552 words in total
2008 .................... - 5,947 words in total
2009 ........... - 3,137 words in total
2010 .................... - 5,991 words in total
2011 ............... - 4,414 words in total
2013 .................................... - 10,803 words in total
2014 ............................ - 8,457 words in total
2015 ............................... - 9,273 words in total
2016 .......... - 3,060 words in total
2017 ............... - 4,315 words in total
2018 ............. - 3,765 words in total
2019 ...... - 1,354 words in total
2020 ...................................... - 10,994 words in total
2021 . - 149 words in total
2022 ........... - 2,592 words in total
2023 .. - 544 words in total
2024 ...................................... - 11,365 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 17
1. Lallans Magazine 50,883 words
2. Scots Language Centre 7,088 words
3. Seahorse 4,177 words
4. Peters and Sons 4,089 words
5. Mak Forrit 3,844 words
6. Northwords Now 3,826 words
7. Scots Hoose 3,742 words
8. northwordsnow.co.uk 3,060 words
9. The National 3,011 words
10. Tapsalteerie 2,902 words
11. Press and Journal 1,765 words
12. Facebook 1,336 words
13. Itchy Coo 949 words
14. Evening Express 784 words
15. DC Thomson 548 words
16. no publisher recorded 544 words
17. Doric Future 469 words