A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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2012

Total words in 2012 year :133,869 (4.2% of full corpus)
Locations within this year include:-

Stirling
Ards
Ballycarry
Ardrossan
Buckie
Prestwick
Aberdeen
Dollar
Banff
Voe

Dialect codes within this year include:-
SHD - Shetland
LAL - General Central
WCE - West Central
MNA - Mid Northern A
SEC - (South) East Central
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
GUL - General Ulster
SWE - South West (Galloway)
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
DOR - General Northern
EDN - Edinburgh

32,080 words from Begg, James A. (24% of this year)
30,652 words from Hay, Gordon M. (22.9% of this year)
29,187 words from Johnson, Laureen (21.8% of this year)
11,920 words from McQueer, Chris (8.9% of this year)
4,909 words from Shoor Caan, Angus (3.7% of this year)
3,048 words from Pacitti, Stephen (2.3% of this year)
2,820 words from Horsbroch, Dauvit (2.1% of this year)
2,611 words from Robertson, Colin (2% of this year)
2,291 words from Falconer, Gavin (1.7% of this year)
2,122 words from Docherty, John F. (1.6% of this year)
1,607 words from @cammyrudkin (1.2% of this year)
1,569 words from Johnston, Mary (1.2% of this year)
1,284 words from @Franwella (1% of this year)
1,230 words from Farrow, Kenneth D. (0.9% of this year)
1,223 words from @jamie_ginger (0.9% of this year)
1,049 words from Hardie, George (0.8% of this year)
859 words from McPartlin, John (0.6% of this year)
795 words from Robinson, Christine (0.6% of this year)
613 words from Williamson, Christie (0.5% of this year)
489 words from Letford, William (0.4% of this year)
335 words from Smyth, Anne (0.3% of this year)
280 words from Hume, David (0.2% of this year)
279 words from Thompson, Mark (0.2% of this year)
181 words from Gibson, Darren (0.1% of this year)
58 words from Haddow, Kris (0% of this year)
56 words from Gilmour, Rosie (0% of this year)

and 322 words by 4 people on Facebook

Genre by year

2012
.blog - 234 words in total
.....government - 2,820 words in total
.......newspaper - 4,278 words in total
............poetry - 7,434 words in total
............................................................................................................................................................................prose - 114,611 words in total
.......social - 4,436 words in total
.weans - 56 words in total