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Dialect details

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Orkney

Total words in dialect :99,230 (3.1% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 14,714 (14.8% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 8,532
Total words occurring more than once : 6,182
Locations within this dialect include:-
Finstown
Hackland

Number of writers : 34
1. Parkins, Hazel 24,280 words 24.47% of this dialect
2. Giles, Harry Josephine 17,214 words 17.35% of this dialect
3. Hall, Simon W. 9,395 words 9.47% of this dialect
4. Baikie, R. M. 5,246 words 5.29% of this dialect
5. Johnston, Barbara 4,820 words 4.86% of this dialect
6. Butler, Vera 4,670 words 4.71% of this dialect
7. Cormack, Kevin 4,520 words 4.56% of this dialect
8. Bruce, Lorraine 3,347 words 3.37% of this dialect
9. Grieve, Ingrid 3,215 words 3.24% of this dialect
10. Garson, Sheila 3,078 words 3.1% of this dialect
11. Norquoy, Greer 2,209 words 2.23% of this dialect
12. Orkney Voices Group 2,017 words 2.03% of this dialect
13. Grieve, Issy 1,953 words 1.97% of this dialect
14. Miller, Alison 1,750 words 1.76% of this dialect
15. Towrie, David 1,719 words 1.73% of this dialect
16. Sclater, Kathryn 536 words 0.54% of this dialect
17. Hollinrake, Fran Flett 467 words 0.47% of this dialect
18. Tait, Ruth 462 words 0.47% of this dialect
19. Lamb, Gregor 431 words 0.43% of this dialect
20. Skea, Bessie 406 words 0.41% of this dialect
21. Leonard, Ingrid 406 words 0.41% of this dialect
22. Brown, Moyra 233 words 0.23% of this dialect
23. Hall, Anja 207 words 0.21% of this dialect
24. Peace, Courtney 198 words 0.2% of this dialect
25. Flett, Alison 154 words 0.16% of this dialect
26. Hershaw, William 144 words 0.15% of this dialect
27. Russell, Morag 122 words 0.12% of this dialect
28. Hume, Caroline 110 words 0.11% of this dialect
29. West, Barbara 109 words 0.11% of this dialect
30. Mainland, Marlene 107 words 0.11% of this dialect
31. Cowan, Fiona A 90 words 0.09% of this dialect
32. Harris, Jane 70 words 0.07% of this dialect
33. Ljosland, Ragnhild 62 words 0.06% of this dialect
34. Forkin, Ellen 45 words 0.05% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 3
1. peediepuss 3,514 words 3.54% of this dialect
2. johnkmitchinson 440 words 0.44% of this dialect
3. HJosephineGiles 239 words 0.24% of this dialect

Number of Facebook people : 6
Total words on Facebook : 1,245 words, 1.25% of this dialect

Genres

2000 ................ - 5,246 words in total
2002 ......................................................................... - 23,942 words in total
2004 . - 154 words in total
2005 .... - 769 words in total
2010 .......... - 2,965 words in total
2013 . - 5 words in total
2014 .... - 775 words in total
2015 .......................... - 7,997 words in total
2016 ..... - 1,556 words in total
2017 ........... - 3,274 words in total
2018 .. - 343 words in total
2019 ..... - 1,046 words in total
2020 ........... - 3,563 words in total
2021 .................................................................................................................. - 37,081 words in total
2022 ................................ - 10,514 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 20
1. H and M Parkins 23,942 words
2. Orkney Voices 22,754 words
3. Picador 12,402 words
4. Abersee Press 10,108 words
5. Brisk Northerly 7,284 words
6. Baikie 5,246 words
7. harryjosephine.com 1,749 words
8. Orkneyjar 1,719 words
9. https://harryjosephine.com/ 1,325 words
10. Orkney Heritage Society 1,246 words
11. https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 1,153 words
12. Bella Caledonia 1,098 words
13. Itchy Coo 819 words
14. University of Edinburgh 767 words
15. The Bottle Imp 585 words
16. The Orkney Dictionary 431 words
17. northwordsnow.co.uk 406 words
18. Lallans Magazine 338 words
19. Scottish Poetry Library 298 words
20. Facebook 122 words