A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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South West (Galloway)

Total words in South West (Galloway) dialect :71,343 (2.2% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 12,830 (18% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 7,934
Total words occurring more than once : 4,896
Locations within this dialect include:-
Largs
Galloway
Stranraer
Dumfries

Number of writers : 20
1. Paterson, Stuart A. 16,169 words 22.66% of this dialect
2. Haddow, Kris 8,651 words 12.13% of this dialect
3. McMillan, Hugh 6,691 words 9.38% of this dialect
4. Niven, Liz 5,640 words 7.91% of this dialect
5. Adamson, Donald 3,169 words 4.44% of this dialect
6. Tindal, Betty 2,658 words 3.73% of this dialect
7. McDonald, Hamish 2,542 words 3.56% of this dialect
8. Douglas, David 2,296 words 3.22% of this dialect
9. Curran, Doug 2,120 words 2.97% of this dialect
10. Neill, Josie 1,745 words 2.45% of this dialect
11. Bryden, Hugh 1,674 words 2.35% of this dialect
12. Ross, Derek 1,182 words 1.66% of this dialect
13. Scott, Hamish 1,155 words 1.62% of this dialect
14. Wilson, Rab 1,034 words 1.45% of this dialect
15. Burns, John 875 words 1.23% of this dialect
16. Evie 648 words 0.91% of this dialect
17. Watt, George T. 363 words 0.51% of this dialect
18. Drosten, John 362 words 0.51% of this dialect
19. Harper, Emma 157 words 0.22% of this dialect
20. McClure, Alan 108 words 0.15% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 1
1. StuartPoet 12,104 words 16.97% of this dialect

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

Genres

2001 ................... - 4,293 words in total
2003 ........... - 2,542 words in total
2004 . - 109 words in total
2005 ...... - 1,110 words in total
2008 .... - 862 words in total
2009 ......................................................... - 13,391 words in total
2011 ....... - 1,537 words in total
2012 . - 56 words in total
2013 ... - 532 words in total
2015 ... - 648 words in total
2016 . - 94 words in total
2017 .. - 321 words in total
2020 .................................................... - 12,038 words in total
2021 ............................................ - 10,214 words in total
2022 .................................... - 8,172 words in total
2023 ................................................................. - 15,424 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 16
1. Luath 23,020 words
2. Ulster-Scots Community Network 15,424 words
3. The Wee Paper 4,749 words
4. Lallans Magazine 3,968 words
5. Tapsalteerie 3,047 words
6. Itchy Coo 2,542 words
7. Association for Scottish Literature 2,309 words
8. words.krishaddow.com 1,593 words
9. Eemis Stane 807 words
10. Largs Writers Group 648 words
11. Scottish Poetry Library 415 words
12. Lidl 253 words
13. The Scottish Parliament 157 words
14. northwordsnow.co.uk 122 words
15. Twitter 108 words
16. twitter 77 words