Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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2008

Total words in 2008 year :78,423 (2.4% of full corpus)
Locations within this year include:-

Musselburgh
Lerwick
Prestwick
Aberdeen
Dundee
Hamilton
Midlothian
Selkirk
Montrose

Dialect codes within this year include:-
SHD - Shetland
SEC - (South) East Central
SNO - South Northern
GLA - Glasgow
DOR - General Northern
SEA - South East (Borders)
EDN - Edinburgh
GUL - General Ulster
LAL - General Central
WCE - West Central
ABN - Aberdeen
DUN - Dundee
SWE - South West (Galloway)

11,623 words from Fairnie, Robert (14.8% of this year)
10,235 words from Robertson, James (13.1% of this year)
6,944 words from Farrow, Kenneth D. (8.9% of this year)
5,983 words from Pacitti, Stephen (7.6% of this year)
4,652 words from Watt, Valerie (5.9% of this year)
4,130 words from Forde, Iain W D (5.3% of this year)
4,090 words from Purdie, David C. (5.2% of this year)
3,155 words from Tollick, Margaret (4% of this year)
2,315 words from Bolland, John (3% of this year)
2,235 words from Vettese, Raymond (2.8% of this year)
2,153 words from Connor, Charles P. (2.7% of this year)
2,153 words from Robinson, Christine (2.7% of this year)
1,607 words from Wilson, Rab (2% of this year)
1,431 words from Horsbroch, Dauvit (1.8% of this year)
1,409 words from McClure, Derrick J. (1.8% of this year)
1,332 words from Robertson, Colin (1.7% of this year)
983 words from Watt, George T. (1.3% of this year)
980 words from Sprott, Gavin (1.2% of this year)
959 words from De Luca, Christine (1.2% of this year)
955 words from Ullans Speakers Association (1.2% of this year)
887 words from Purves, David (1.1% of this year)
862 words from Tindal, Betty (1.1% of this year)
816 words from Hodgson, Brent (1% of this year)
802 words from Matheson, Ann (1% of this year)
766 words from Hershaw, William (1% of this year)
618 words from Perrie, Walter (0.8% of this year)
563 words from Blackhall, Sheena (0.7% of this year)
553 words from Philip, George (0.7% of this year)
431 words from TheChielMeister (0.5% of this year)
368 words from The Westender (0.5% of this year)
362 words from McCabe, Mary (0.5% of this year)
251 words from McCabe, Alan (0.3% of this year)
218 words from Johnston, Mary (0.3% of this year)
213 words from Ritch, Paolo (0.3% of this year)
200 words from Hardie, George (0.3% of this year)
169 words from McPartlin, John (0.2% of this year)
153 words from Landles, William (0.2% of this year)
136 words from Templeton, Sheila (0.2% of this year)
127 words from McCallum, Andrew (0.2% of this year)
114 words from Cameron, Peter (0.1% of this year)
105 words from Tait, John M (0.1% of this year)
104 words from McGibbon, Joe (0.1% of this year)
97 words from White, Ian Nimmo (0.1% of this year)
96 words from McHardy, Stuart (0.1% of this year)
88 words from Sangster, Maureen (0.1% of this year)

Genre by year

2008
...........................................newspaper - 16,643 words in total
........................poetry - 9,049 words in total
................................................................................................prose - 37,427 words in total
........................................weans - 15,304 words in total