A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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Shetland

Total words in Shetland dialect :168,166 (5.2% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 16,610 (9.9% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 9,097
Total words occurring more than once : 7,513
Locations within this dialect include:-
Yell
Whalsay
Shetland
Brae
Lerwick
Bressay
Voe

Number of writers : 34
1. Johnson, Laureen 30,388 words 18.07% of this dialect
2. Fraser, Barbara 26,210 words 15.59% of this dialect
3. Greig, Charles 19,453 words 11.57% of this dialect
4. I Hear Dee 17,387 words 10.34% of this dialect
5. De Luca, Christine 14,391 words 8.56% of this dialect
6. Watt, Valerie 10,828 words 6.44% of this dialect
7. Tait, John M 7,960 words 4.73% of this dialect
8. Cumming, John 2,797 words 1.66% of this dialect
9. Jamieson, Robert Alan 2,516 words 1.5% of this dialect
10. Williamson, Christie 1,804 words 1.07% of this dialect
11. Peterson, George P.S. 1,522 words 0.91% of this dialect
12. Ratter, Peter 1,420 words 0.84% of this dialect
13. Sutherland, Hazel 1,412 words 0.84% of this dialect
14. MacInnes, Morag 1,268 words 0.75% of this dialect
15. Sandison, Iris 1,253 words 0.75% of this dialect
16. Nicholson, Hannah 1,083 words 0.64% of this dialect
17. Sinclair, James 935 words 0.56% of this dialect
18. Isbister, Sonny 752 words 0.45% of this dialect
19. Laurenson, Hannah Lisa 693 words 0.41% of this dialect
20. Priest, Ena 683 words 0.41% of this dialect
21. Walterson, Barbara 652 words 0.39% of this dialect
22. Watt, Roseanne 541 words 0.32% of this dialect
23. Nicholson, James 532 words 0.32% of this dialect
24. Mainland, Jim 296 words 0.18% of this dialect
25. Walterson, Vaila 288 words 0.17% of this dialect
26. Sinclair, Lise 259 words 0.15% of this dialect
27. Sutherland, Stella 241 words 0.14% of this dialect
28. Ritch, Paolo 211 words 0.13% of this dialect
29. Irvine, Chloe 174 words 0.1% of this dialect
30. Graham, Laurence 146 words 0.09% of this dialect
31. Hall, Nat 124 words 0.07% of this dialect
32. Tait, Christian 112 words 0.07% of this dialect
33. Mundair, Raman 77 words 0.05% of this dialect
34. Manson, Finnley 66 words 0.04% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 6
1. helenmoncrieff 7,025 words 4.18% of this dialect
2. tattooedselkie 3,285 words 1.95% of this dialect
3. RedValkyrie84 2,624 words 1.56% of this dialect
4. Julie_Dennison 2,620 words 1.56% of this dialect
5. shaetlan_rose 1,518 words 0.9% of this dialect
6. HazelTindall 292 words 0.17% of this dialect

Number of Facebook people : 16
Total words on Facebook : 2,328 words, 1.38% of this dialect

Genres

2000 . - 146 words in total
2001 .......... - 4,946 words in total
2002 ......... - 4,454 words in total
2003 ...... - 2,612 words in total
2004 .............. - 7,341 words in total
2005 ............. - 7,028 words in total
2006 ..... - 1,850 words in total
2007 .. - 608 words in total
2008 ............ - 5,683 words in total
2009 ........................................ - 21,952 words in total
2010 .................. - 8,508 words in total
2011 .. - 698 words in total
2012 ...................................................... - 29,575 words in total
2013 .. - 754 words in total
2014 ....... - 3,404 words in total
2015 .. - 636 words in total
2016 .... - 2,238 words in total
2017 ........ - 3,202 words in total
2018 ..... - 2,265 words in total
2019 ......... - 4,011 words in total
2020 ......... - 4,870 words in total
2021 ............................................................. - 33,305 words in total
2022 ................................. - 17,873 words in total
2023 . - 207 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 25
1. Shetland Times 37,948 words
2. Evertype 28,964 words
3. Saint Andrew Press 19,453 words
4. I Hear Dee 17,258 words
5. Shetland For Wirds 12,843 words
6. Luath 6,967 words
7. Lallans Magazine 5,807 words
8. Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 4,671 words
9. Young Shetland Writer 3,507 words
10. Abersee Press 2,387 words
11. SCOTS corpus 2,308 words
12. University of Edinburgh 1,669 words
13. damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 1,189 words
14. Hands Up For Trad 693 words
15. Leopard Arts 666 words
16. Polygon 541 words
17. Scots Language Centre 281 words
18. Scottish Poetry Library 275 words
19. Eemis Stane 210 words
20. Doric Books 207 words
21. The Scotsman 174 words
22. The Bottle Imp 137 words
23. Facebook 129 words
24. Association for Scottish Literature 124 words
25. Scots Hoose 66 words