A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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Mid Northern A

Total words in Mid Northern A dialect :302,046 (9.4% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 25,335 (8.4% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 13,073
Total words occurring more than once : 12,262
Locations within this dialect include:-
Banff
Inverurie
Keith
Buckie
Aberdeenshire
Banffshire
Aberdeen
Alford
Fraserburgh
Troup
Boddam

Number of writers : 34
1. Leslie, Deborah 73,644 words 24.38% of this dialect
2. Blackhall, Sheena 72,497 words 24% of this dialect
3. Hay, Gordon M. 30,594 words 10.13% of this dialect
4. Hutchison, Pat 27,930 words 9.25% of this dialect
5. Morrison, Gordon 26,054 words 8.63% of this dialect
6. Grant, Margaret 14,216 words 4.71% of this dialect
7. Cameron, Alan 3,901 words 1.29% of this dialect
8. Goodall, Phyllis J. 3,500 words 1.16% of this dialect
9. Johnson, Mary 3,467 words 1.15% of this dialect
10. Thom, Bill 2,800 words 0.93% of this dialect
11. Elphinstone Institute 1,907 words 0.63% of this dialect
12. Johnston, Mary 1,555 words 0.51% of this dialect
13. Ireland, Mark 1,372 words 0.45% of this dialect
14. Irvine, Owen 1,107 words 0.37% of this dialect
15. Johnstone, Ian 946 words 0.31% of this dialect
16. Gauld, Ilene 893 words 0.3% of this dialect
17. Wilson, Katie 834 words 0.28% of this dialect
18. Rumbles, Brodie-Anne 831 words 0.28% of this dialect
19. Shepherd, Robbie 679 words 0.22% of this dialect
20. Fairbairn, Jamie 554 words 0.18% of this dialect
21. Harper, Norman 540 words 0.18% of this dialect
22. Noble, Brian 465 words 0.15% of this dialect
23. Harper, Edith 417 words 0.14% of this dialect
24. McArthur, Kaydi 363 words 0.12% of this dialect
25. Shearer, Gillian 335 words 0.11% of this dialect
26. Mitchell, Kiera 251 words 0.08% of this dialect
27. Wilson, Heidi and Isla 240 words 0.08% of this dialect
28. Banff Academy 234 words 0.08% of this dialect
29. Thain, Gianna 197 words 0.07% of this dialect
30. Cormack, Liam 106 words 0.04% of this dialect
31. Findlater, Mark 99 words 0.03% of this dialect
32. Freeman, Rebekah 98 words 0.03% of this dialect
33. Legge, Robert 54 words 0.02% of this dialect
34. Innes, Michelle 39 words 0.01% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 3
1. DoricPhrases 13,995 words 4.63% of this dialect
2. FaeFoggie 8,318 words 2.75% of this dialect
3. JamieFairbairn1 6,072 words 2.01% of this dialect

Number of Facebook people : 6
Total words on Facebook : 942 words, 0.31% of this dialect

Genres

2000 ..... - 4,135 words in total
2001 .. - 1,530 words in total
2004 .............................................................. - 61,530 words in total
2006 ......................................... - 41,270 words in total
2007 ....................... - 22,288 words in total
2011 ................................ - 31,218 words in total
2012 ................................. - 32,465 words in total
2013 .... - 2,979 words in total
2014 ..................... - 20,226 words in total
2015 . - 949 words in total
2016 .............. - 12,654 words in total
2017 .......................... - 24,744 words in total
2018 ....... - 5,381 words in total
2019 .......... - 8,426 words in total
2020 ................ - 13,865 words in total
2021 .... - 2,686 words in total
2022 .. - 930 words in total
2023 ............... - 14,216 words in total
2024 . - 554 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 25
1. Argo Publishing 73,320 words
2. Scots Language Centre 31,177 words
3. Gordon M Hay 30,594 words
4. McStorytellers.com 27,035 words
5. Authorhouse 26,054 words
6. Lochlands 22,288 words
7. Smashwords 18,438 words
8. Huntly Writers 14,216 words
9. Lallans Magazine 10,453 words
10. Scots Hoose 4,279 words
11. Tapsalteerie 2,800 words
12. timberford.demon 1,970 words
13. Aberdeenshire Council 1,907 words
14. Doric Future 1,217 words
15. The Gaudie 1,213 words
16. The Fraserburgh Herald 946 words
17. Ayton Publishing 895 words
18. northwordsnow.co.uk 752 words
19. John Benjamin 679 words
20. Itchy Coo 594 words
21. DC Thomson 554 words
22. The Press and Journal 540 words
23. Facebook 465 words
24. GIRFEC 234 words
25. no publisher recorded 99 words