A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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Southern

Total words in dialect :96,020 (2.9% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 13,501 (14.1% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 7,779
Total words occurring more than once : 5,722
Locations within this dialect include:-
Selkirk
Roxburgh
Scottish Borders
Hawick
Dumfries
Borders

Number of writers : 10
1. Halfpenny, Cameron 26,653 words 27.76% of this dialect
2. Rodger, Matt 20,248 words 21.09% of this dialect
3. Purves, David 10,280 words 10.71% of this dialect
4. Thompson, James 5,308 words 5.53% of this dialect
5. Stevenson, Gerda 2,311 words 2.41% of this dialect
6. Neill, Willie 2,070 words 2.16% of this dialect
7. The Westender 2,026 words 2.11% of this dialect
8. Wilson, Rab 1,880 words 1.96% of this dialect
9. Tindal, Betty 1,335 words 1.39% of this dialect
10. Purdie, David C. 671 words 0.7% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 7
1. StuartPoet 12,104 words 12.61% of this dialect
2. MartyMacMurtrie 4,891 words 5.09% of this dialect
3. jamie_ginger 2,681 words 2.79% of this dialect
4. cammyrudkin 1,765 words 1.84% of this dialect
5. officialAliRed 1,305 words 1.36% of this dialect
6. Woodwinecoolers 314 words 0.33% of this dialect
7. projecthawick 178 words 0.19% of this dialect

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

Genres

2003 ................................................................................. - 25,598 words in total
2004 .. - 599 words in total
2005 ......... - 2,511 words in total
2007 ...... - 1,658 words in total
2008 ..... - 1,249 words in total
2009 ...................... - 6,778 words in total
2011 . - 31 words in total
2012 ......... - 2,830 words in total
2013 . - 163 words in total
2015 ..................................................................................... - 26,662 words in total
2016 . - 8 words in total
2017 .. - 135 words in total
2018 . - 262 words in total
2019 .... - 1,256 words in total
2020 ........................................................ - 17,742 words in total
2021 .......... - 2,916 words in total
2022 . - 314 words in total
2023 ................. - 5,308 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 7
1. Evertype 26,653 words
2. SCOTS Corpus 25,598 words
3. Lallans Magazine 5,601 words
4. Richardson and Son Printers 5,308 words
5. Luath 5,285 words
6. Scottish Language Center 2,311 words
7. The Hawick Paper 2,026 words