A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Dialect details

Jump to Central Doric Shetland Orkney Ulster Southern

Ulster

Total words in dialect :250,307 (7.7% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 21,741 (8.7% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 11,167
Total words occurring more than once : 10,574
Locations within this dialect include:-
Ballymena
Comber
Newtownards
Ards Peninsula
Coleraine
Larne
Ards
Ballycarry
Ballymoney
Rural Mid-Antrim
Dunloy
L'Derry
Galway

Number of writers : 40
1. Ulster-Scots Language Society 44,421 words 17.75% of this dialect
2. Morrison-Smyth, Anne 30,499 words 12.18% of this dialect
3. Crozier, Ian 25,764 words 10.29% of this dialect
4. King, Angeline 21,519 words 8.6% of this dialect
5. North South Ministerial Council 16,031 words 6.4% of this dialect
6. Ni Chuilin, Caral 11,382 words 4.55% of this dialect
7. HRConnect 9,628 words 3.85% of this dialect
8. Dornan, Stephen 8,533 words 3.41% of this dialect
9. Robinson, Philip 7,751 words 3.1% of this dialect
10. Ferguson, Roy 6,883 words 2.75% of this dialect
11. McDonald, Fiona 6,484 words 2.59% of this dialect
12. Ulster Scots Agency 6,242 words 2.49% of this dialect
13. Fenton, James 5,556 words 2.22% of this dialect
14. Burgess, Wilson 5,322 words 2.13% of this dialect
15. Campbell, Robert 4,116 words 1.64% of this dialect
16. Millar, Al 4,012 words 1.6% of this dialect
17. Spence, Laura 2,475 words 0.99% of this dialect
18. Stewart, Kenny 2,017 words 0.81% of this dialect
19. Belfast City Council 1,955 words 0.78% of this dialect
20. Reynolds, Charlie 1,447 words 0.58% of this dialect
21. Logan, Liam 1,400 words 0.56% of this dialect
22. Gillen, Charles 1,119 words 0.45% of this dialect
23. Ullans Speakers Association 955 words 0.38% of this dialect
24. Bennett, Hazel 939 words 0.38% of this dialect
25. Warwick, Matthew 930 words 0.37% of this dialect
26. Thompson, Mark 812 words 0.32% of this dialect
27. Gibson, Darren 773 words 0.31% of this dialect
28. Cartmill, Claire 426 words 0.17% of this dialect
29. BardOfMilebush 422 words 0.17% of this dialect
30. Mc Donnell, John 364 words 0.15% of this dialect
31. Smyth, Anne 333 words 0.13% of this dialect
32. Ultach 298 words 0.12% of this dialect
33. Depairtment fur Commonities 284 words 0.11% of this dialect
34. Hume, David 279 words 0.11% of this dialect
35. DfC Press Offys 245 words 0.1% of this dialect
36. NewtonLass 229 words 0.09% of this dialect
37. Hanna, Wendy 123 words 0.05% of this dialect
38. Dee Har 109 words 0.04% of this dialect
39. Drennan, William 93 words 0.04% of this dialect
40. Swannock Fulton, Rab 58 words 0.02% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 8
1. the_gellick 11,238 words 4.49% of this dialect
2. TheFarrierPhil 1,745 words 0.7% of this dialect
3. OrangRuth 1,339 words 0.53% of this dialect
4. Angelinekking 1,200 words 0.48% of this dialect
5. MarkThompStuff 1,022 words 0.41% of this dialect
6. fairfaaye 767 words 0.31% of this dialect
7. HurchinHome 558 words 0.22% of this dialect
8. Rosehill_girl 210 words 0.08% of this dialect

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

Genres

2000 . - 45 words in total
2001 ... - 1,737 words in total
2004 .. - 498 words in total
2005 . - 772 words in total
2007 ........................... - 21,353 words in total
2008 .. - 955 words in total
2009 ........ - 5,657 words in total
2010 . - 615 words in total
2011 ....... - 4,287 words in total
2012 .. - 1,065 words in total
2013 ..................................... - 30,114 words in total
2014 .......... - 6,945 words in total
2015 ................... - 15,549 words in total
2016 ........................................................ - 46,036 words in total
2017 ........... - 8,248 words in total
2018 ... - 1,589 words in total
2019 ... - 1,205 words in total
2020 .................. - 12,933 words in total
2021 .............................. - 23,667 words in total
2022 ................................................................ - 51,549 words in total
2023 ........ - 5,860 words in total
2025 ............ - 9,628 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 35
1. Ullans Press 57,346 words
2. Evertype 30,499 words
3. communities-ni.gov.uk 26,048 words
4. Ullans Speakers Association 20,362 words
5. Leschenault Press 17,691 words
6. Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 11,382 words
7. Northern Ireland Executive 9,628 words
8. Ulster-Scots Academy 6,929 words
9. self-published 6,883 words
10. Ulster-Scots Academy Press 6,484 words
11. census.gov.uk 6,242 words
12. Ullans Magazine 5,650 words
13. Scots Language Centre 5,322 words
14. Independently 4,116 words
15. angelineking.com 3,569 words
16. Belfast City Council 1,955 words
17. Facebook 1,880 words
18. Galdanagh 1,400 words
19. Bella Caledonia 1,206 words
20. no publisher recorded 1,108 words
21. North Antrim Speak 1,021 words
22. Ulster-Scots Agency 955 words
23. Reddit 720 words
24. clydesburn.blogspot.com 538 words
25. Sensory Attachment Centre 531 words
26. twitter 492 words
27. Ballymoney and Moyle Times 426 words
28. Words without Borders Magazine 405 words
29. Ulster-Scots Community Network 399 words
30. Depairtment fur Commonities 245 words
31. newtonlass.blogspot.com 229 words
32. lowcountrylad.blogspot.com/ 221 words
33. Modern Poetry Translation 165 words
34. Facebook - Schomberg Society 123 words
35. Association for Scottish Literary Studies 58 words