A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Dialect details

Jump to Central Doric Shetland Orkney Ulster Southern

South East (Borders)

Total words in South East (Borders) dialect :81,801 (2.5% of full corpus)
Total unique words : 11,519 (14.1% of dialect)
Total hapax legomenon (words occurring only once) : 6,498
Total words occurring more than once : 5,021
Locations within this dialect include:-
Galashiels
Selkirk
Roxburgh
Scottish Borders
Hawick
Peebles
Borders

Number of writers : 8
1. Halfpenny, Cameron 26,653 words 32.58% of this dialect
2. Rodger, Matt 20,248 words 24.75% of this dialect
3. Purves, David 10,280 words 12.57% of this dialect
4. Thompson, James 5,308 words 6.49% of this dialect
5. Stevenson, Gerda 4,663 words 5.7% of this dialect
6. The Westender 2,026 words 2.48% of this dialect
7. Holton, Brian 1,550 words 1.89% of this dialect
8. Purdie, David C. 117 words 0.14% of this dialect

Number of twitter people : 5
1. MartyMacMurtrie 4,891 words 5.98% of this dialect
2. jamie_ginger 2,681 words 3.28% of this dialect
3. cammyrudkin 1,765 words 2.16% of this dialect
4. officialAliRed 1,305 words 1.6% of this dialect
5. Woodwinecoolers 314 words 0.38% 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 .... - 939 words in total
2011 . - 31 words in total
2012 ........... - 2,830 words in total
2013 . - 163 words in total
2015 ......................................................................................................... - 28,212 words in total
2016 . - 8 words in total
2017 .. - 135 words in total
2018 . - 239 words in total
2019 ..... - 1,219 words in total
2020 ...................... - 5,839 words in total
2021 ........... - 2,597 words in total
2022 .. - 314 words in total
2023 .................... - 5,308 words in total
2025 ......... - 2,352 words in total
Blog Government Newspaper Poetry Prose Social Weans
Number of publishers : 8
1. Evertype 26,653 words
2. SCOTS Corpus 25,598 words
3. Richardson and Son Printers 5,308 words
4. Lallans Magazine 5,047 words
5. Luath 2,352 words
6. Scottish Language Center 2,311 words
7. The Hawick Paper 2,026 words
8. Bella Caledonia 1,550 words