A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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Ayrshire

Total words in Ayrshire dialect :92,815 (2.8% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 11,513 (12.4% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 6,461
Total words occurring more than once : 5,052
Locations within this dialect include:-
Ayr
Ayrshire
Kyle

Number of writers : 10
1. Begg, James A. 59,301 words 63.89% of this dialect
2. Kay, Billy 17,250 words 18.59% of this dialect
3. Neill, Willie 5,204 words 5.61% of this dialect
4. Wilson, Rab 2,430 words 2.62% of this dialect
5. Lehane, Matt 2,423 words 2.61% of this dialect
6. Wallace, Lorna 1,849 words 1.99% of this dialect
7. Meikle, William 1,520 words 1.64% of this dialect
8. Gilliland, Sam 1,157 words 1.25% of this dialect
9. Macdonald, Amy 1,145 words 1.23% of this dialect
10. McClelland, Ben 536 words 0.58% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 0

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

Genres

2001 ... - 786 words in total
2002 ............... - 4,418 words in total
2003 ..... - 1,492 words in total
2004 ..... - 1,520 words in total
2006 ........ - 2,423 words in total
2009 .. - 582 words in total
2010 ... - 744 words in total
2012 ....................................................................................................... - 31,564 words in total
2013 .. - 563 words in total
2014 ............................................................................................ - 28,274 words in total
2016 .. - 343 words in total
2019 ... - 844 words in total
2020 ........ - 2,012 words in total
2023 ........................................................ - 17,250 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 8
1. Carn Publishing 31,564 words
2. Evertype 27,737 words
3. Burnawn Books 17,250 words
4. Lallans Magazine 8,791 words
5. bandcamp 2,423 words
6. lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 1,849 words
7. Scots Hoose 1,681 words
8. ABCTales.com 1,520 words