A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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(South) East Central

Total words in (South) East Central dialect :383,028 (11.7% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 32,090 (8.4% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 16,652
Total words occurring more than once : 15,438
Locations within this dialect include:-
Fife
East Lothian
Perth
Stirling
Kirkcaldy
Dunfermline
East Central
Central
Musselburgh
Edinburgh
Ormiston
Linlithgow
Ceres
Lumphinnans
East Coast
Lothian
Bathgate
Midlothian

Number of writers : 51
1. Fairnie, Robert 65,535 words 17.11% of this dialect
2. Burnett, Colin 30,718 words 8.02% of this dialect
3. Forde, Iain W D 26,728 words 6.98% of this dialect
4. Fleemin, Sandy 24,005 words 6.27% of this dialect
5. Paisley, Janet 20,086 words 5.24% of this dialect
6. Purdie, David C. 15,302 words 4% of this dialect
7. Townsley, Jane 15,259 words 3.98% of this dialect
8. Waddell, John 14,963 words 3.91% of this dialect
9. Hubbard, Tom 13,565 words 3.54% of this dialect
10. Muir, Glenn 12,951 words 3.38% of this dialect
11. Montador, Eileen 10,622 words 2.77% of this dialect
12. McDowell, Diane 9,933 words 2.59% of this dialect
13. Farrow, Kenneth D. 6,695 words 1.75% of this dialect
14. Connor, Charles P. 6,680 words 1.74% of this dialect
15. McPartlin, Moira 6,202 words 1.62% of this dialect
16. Crawford, Ross 5,380 words 1.4% of this dialect
17. Clark, Sara 4,990 words 1.3% of this dialect
18. Morton, Elaine 3,920 words 1.02% of this dialect
19. Douglas, Sheila 3,193 words 0.83% of this dialect
20. Allan, Alasdair 2,814 words 0.73% of this dialect
21. McAlpine, Joan 2,544 words 0.66% of this dialect
22. Calder, Bob 2,348 words 0.61% of this dialect
23. Handy, Robbie 2,235 words 0.58% of this dialect
24. Malgrati, Paul 1,968 words 0.51% of this dialect
25. Hershaw, William 1,909 words 0.5% of this dialect
26. Moodie, Gordon D. 1,624 words 0.42% of this dialect
27. Peffers, Bob 1,469 words 0.38% of this dialect
28. Chalmers, Aimee 1,343 words 0.35% of this dialect
29. Hawkins, Rudi 1,219 words 0.32% of this dialect
30. Forrest, Liam 1,175 words 0.31% of this dialect
31. MacDonald, Bo 1,109 words 0.29% of this dialect
32. Holton, Brian 1,067 words 0.28% of this dialect
33. Gilmour, Rosie 1,018 words 0.27% of this dialect
34. McFarlane, Ishbel 827 words 0.22% of this dialect
35. McKinlay, Kieran 820 words 0.21% of this dialect
36. Matthews, Andrew 811 words 0.21% of this dialect
37. Letford, William 663 words 0.17% of this dialect
38. Pete, Fortune 460 words 0.12% of this dialect
39. Jamie, Kathleen 381 words 0.1% of this dialect
40. Grubb, Adrian 371 words 0.1% of this dialect
41. McLachlan, Jack 341 words 0.09% of this dialect
42. Howat, Irene 283 words 0.07% of this dialect
43. Aitchison, Craig 280 words 0.07% of this dialect
44. Lamb, Darcie 240 words 0.06% of this dialect
45. Duncan, Robert 176 words 0.05% of this dialect
46. Scott, Finola 111 words 0.03% of this dialect
47. Le Marie, Nicole 89 words 0.02% of this dialect
48. Lawrenson, Dorothy 81 words 0.02% of this dialect
49. Stephenson, Michael 70 words 0.02% of this dialect
50. Stirling, Alison 51 words 0.01% of this dialect
51. St Luke's Primary Schuil, Midlothian 34 words 0.01% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 3
1. kennethbryce184 52,344 words 13.67% of this dialect
2. DavidJWood2 3,800 words 0.99% of this dialect
3. ricky_ballboy 226 words 0.06% of this dialect

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

Genres

2000 .......................... - 31,946 words in total
2001 ..................... - 25,447 words in total
2002 ..................... - 24,301 words in total
2003 ....................................... - 47,760 words in total
2004 .................... - 23,679 words in total
2005 ..... - 4,672 words in total
2006 ....... - 7,369 words in total
2007 ........... - 12,113 words in total
2008 ............. - 15,537 words in total
2009 .... - 3,951 words in total
2010 . - 738 words in total
2012 .. - 544 words in total
2013 ..... - 4,345 words in total
2014 ............... - 16,929 words in total
2015 ....... - 7,451 words in total
2016 .......... - 9,616 words in total
2017 ............... - 16,992 words in total
2018 ...... - 6,958 words in total
2019 ..... - 3,368 words in total
2020 .................................. - 40,285 words in total
2021 ......................................................... - 70,458 words in total
2022 .... - 2,502 words in total
2023 ..... - 4,976 words in total
2024 .. - 1,091 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 35
1. self-published 68,667 words
2. Lallans Magazine 58,765 words
3. Fons Scotiae 26,728 words
4. Piermont 26,265 words
5. Canongate 18,140 words
6. lulu.com 15,259 words
7. iUniverse 14,963 words
8. Goblinshead 10,622 words
9. Bella Caledonia 10,330 words
10. Independently Published 9,933 words
11. Grace Note 9,522 words
12. McStorytellers.com 8,558 words
13. sandyfleming.org 8,380 words
14. Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 7,653 words
15. Trilleachan 6,202 words
16. Scots Hoose 4,818 words
17. ABCTales.com 3,753 words
18. Medium 3,329 words
19. Tapsalteerie 2,573 words
20. The Scottish Parliament 2,544 words
21. peffers50.freeserve 2,544 words
22. Eemis Stane 1,246 words
23. Scottish Book Trust 1,219 words
24. productmagazine.co.uk 1,186 words
25. The National 827 words
26. colinburnett.co.uk 700 words
27. Carcanet 488 words
28. Lowdown-L 385 words
29. University of Maine 341 words
30. Wigtown 176 words
31. Scottish Poetry Library 175 words
32. Kettillonia 127 words
33. Association for Scottish Literature 89 words
34. Scots Language Centre 81 words
35. northwordsnow.co.uk 70 words