A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Dialect details

Jump to Central Doric Shetland Orkney Ulster Southern

Glasgow

Total words in Glasgow dialect :180,150 (5.7% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 17,621 (9.8% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 9,454
Total words occurring more than once : 8,167
Locations within this dialect include:-
Glasgow
Glesga
Cowcaddens

Number of writers : 20
1. Bennett, Peter 54,309 words 30.15% of this dialect
2. Clark, Thomas 29,268 words 16.25% of this dialect
3. Armstrong, Graeme 17,649 words 9.8% of this dialect
4. McQueer, Chris 15,516 words 8.61% of this dialect
5. Chisnall, Edward F. H. 13,739 words 7.63% of this dialect
6. Grae, Emma 10,792 words 5.99% of this dialect
7. Sayers, Ross 7,758 words 4.31% of this dialect
8. Mc, Keeks 7,006 words 3.89% of this dialect
9. Donovan, Anne 6,053 words 3.36% of this dialect
10. Bolland, John 3,956 words 2.2% of this dialect
11. Durie, Nick 2,618 words 1.45% of this dialect
12. Cunningham, Lucy 2,589 words 1.44% of this dialect
13. Smith, Elaine C. 2,137 words 1.19% of this dialect
14. Geraghty, Martin 2,086 words 1.16% of this dialect
15. McCrory, Pat 1,193 words 0.66% of this dialect
16. Logan, Kirsty 947 words 0.53% of this dialect
17. Bratchpiece, Neil 624 words 0.35% of this dialect
18. Eunson, Catherine 452 words 0.25% of this dialect
19. Piondargas, Criostoir 245 words 0.14% of this dialect
20. McClure, Rob 100 words 0.06% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 1
1. johnstone_shane 1,113 words 0.62% of this dialect

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

Genres

2000 .. - 1,193 words in total
2002 . - 369 words in total
2003 ... - 1,333 words in total
2007 ... - 1,743 words in total
2008 .... - 2,213 words in total
2009 ....... - 3,827 words in total
2010 .... - 2,226 words in total
2012 .................... - 11,472 words in total
2014 ................................................ - 28,184 words in total
2015 .... - 1,953 words in total
2016 .. - 916 words in total
2017 .......... - 5,788 words in total
2018 . - 39 words in total
2019 . - 38 words in total
2020 ....................................................................................... - 51,063 words in total
2021 ............................................................................................... - 55,996 words in total
2022 .... - 2,102 words in total
2023 ................. - 9,695 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 22
1. ABCTales.com 52,992 words
2. Evertype 41,299 words
3. Picador 17,649 words
4. 404 Ink 15,516 words
5. unbound.com 9,387 words
6. Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 7,758 words
7. Dreich 7,006 words
8. Association for Scottish Literature 4,791 words
9. Canongate 3,827 words
10. Lallans Magazine 2,936 words
11. Edinburgh International Book Festival 2,226 words
12. From Glasgow To Saturn 2,213 words
13. Itchy Coo 2,137 words
14. Gatehouse Press 1,708 words
15. peffers50.freeserve 1,702 words
16. liarsleague.com 1,405 words
17. TheCommonBreath.com 1,301 words
18. Scots Hoose 947 words
19. The Sair Fecht 916 words
20. YouTube 624 words
21. The Scores 452 words
22. no publisher recorded 245 words