A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

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West Central

Total words in West Central dialect :214,454 (6.7% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 20,654 (9.6% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 11,282
Total words occurring more than once : 9,372
Locations within this dialect include:-
East Dunbartonshire
North Lanarkshire
Bellshill
Buckie
Glasgow
North Ayrshire
Greenock
Netherlee
Saltcoats
Turriff
Ardrossan
Kilmarnock
Aryshire
Dumfries
Renfrew
Prestwick
New Cumnock
Hamilton

Number of writers : 29
1. Percy, Ely 71,820 words 33.49% of this dialect
2. Donovan, Anne 38,619 words 18.01% of this dialect
3. Wilson, Rab 22,530 words 10.51% of this dialect
4. Farrow, Kenneth D. 19,180 words 8.94% of this dialect
5. Clark, Thomas 11,183 words 5.21% of this dialect
6. Philips, Cally 9,723 words 4.53% of this dialect
7. Shoor Caan, Angus 6,842 words 3.19% of this dialect
8. Calderwood, Lynsey 4,272 words 1.99% of this dialect
9. Hardie, George 3,432 words 1.6% of this dialect
10. Hodgart, John 2,735 words 1.28% of this dialect
11. Kirk Jn, Albert 2,287 words 1.07% of this dialect
12. Neill, Willie 2,070 words 0.97% of this dialect
13. Bates, Gregor 1,917 words 0.89% of this dialect
14. Douglas, Sheila 1,495 words 0.7% of this dialect
15. Campbell, Karen 1,446 words 0.67% of this dialect
16. Connor, Bailey 1,384 words 0.65% of this dialect
17. Mortimer, Cara 1,356 words 0.63% of this dialect
18. Alston, Connor 1,268 words 0.59% of this dialect
19. Nicol, Alissa 1,221 words 0.57% of this dialect
20. Davidson, Alistair 1,205 words 0.56% of this dialect
21. Sutherland, Hope 953 words 0.44% of this dialect
22. Pennie, Len 899 words 0.42% of this dialect
23. Sands, Finn 508 words 0.24% of this dialect
24. Kay, Billy 469 words 0.22% of this dialect
25. Cunningham, Liam 435 words 0.2% of this dialect
26. Lochhead, Liz 380 words 0.18% of this dialect
27. Steele, Gregor 376 words 0.18% of this dialect
28. Wilson, Lucy 195 words 0.09% of this dialect
29. McDonald, Alistair 119 words 0.06% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 2
1. annieones 2,652 words 1.24% of this dialect
2. MizLiot 1,483 words 0.69% of this dialect

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

Genres

2001 ..... - 2,154 words in total
2004 . - 119 words in total
2005 .... - 2,007 words in total
2006 .................................. - 23,218 words in total
2007 ..... - 3,192 words in total
2008 ........... - 7,137 words in total
2009 ........... - 6,865 words in total
2010 ...... - 3,098 words in total
2012 ........... - 6,761 words in total
2013 ......... - 5,644 words in total
2015 .. - 877 words in total
2016 .............. - 9,480 words in total
2017 ........... - 6,855 words in total
2018 ..... - 3,370 words in total
2019 ......................................................... - 39,967 words in total
2020 ........... - 7,004 words in total
2021 ................................................................................................................. - 78,909 words in total
2022 .............. - 7,797 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 21
1. Monstrous Regiment 70,466 words
2. Itchy Coo 38,619 words
3. Lallans Magazine 25,475 words
4. Luath 24,073 words
5. McStorytellers.com 12,037 words
6. Bella Caledonia 11,347 words
7. Scots Hoose 9,236 words
8. self-published 4,528 words
9. albertkirkjr.com 2,287 words
10. Litro magazine 1,846 words
11. Bella Calledonia 1,461 words
12. The Interpreters House.org 1,354 words
13. Dictionaries of the Scots Language 1,283 words
14. The Scores 1,282 words
15. The National 1,274 words
16. The Sair Fecht 1,205 words
17. From Glasgow To Saturn 1,177 words
18. tictok 471 words
19. archive2021.parliament.scot 469 words
20. Lidl 234 words
21. Greenock Telegraph 195 words