A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Moar, Paul

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 386
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 229
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.686
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, a, tae, and, i, was, fae, an, it, wi,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2021 September 12 at 6:01 PM) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (40 words)


Facebook (September 17, 2021) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (79 words)


Facebook (May 10, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (108 words)


Facebook (June 29, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (142 words)


Facebook (October 15, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (17 words)

Author word Keyness frequencies

This should list the words that the author uses in a disproportionate manner more often than other writers in the corpus. This may include (a) proper nouns (character names in the author's stories), (b) other words related to the specific subject matter and (c) words specific to the regional dialect.
WordCount Normalised
per million		 Keyness
da19 49,222.8078.518
ertie3 7,772.0239.110
old4 10,362.6934.463
was7 18,134.7228.268
i'm4 10,362.6925.607
place-names2 5,181.3524.884
dis5 12,953.3721.997
rasmie2 5,181.3521.610
meaning2 5,181.3520.137
fishing2 5,181.3519.841
town2 5,181.3519.308
email2 5,181.3518.223
dem3 7,772.0217.889
peerie3 7,772.0217.738
sand2 5,181.3517.690
nothing2 5,181.3516.937
do3 7,772.0215.883
and10 25,906.7412.390
trow2 5,181.3512.280
caad2 5,181.3512.076
show2 5,181.3511.388
eftir2 5,181.3511.009
fae6 15,544.0410.884
just3 7,772.0210.466
sign2 5,181.3510.452
line2 5,181.359.898
something2 5,181.358.768
i8 20,725.398.652
different2 5,181.358.065
my3 7,772.027.873
dey2 5,181.357.606
let2 5,181.356.612
ken3 7,772.025.912
mind2 5,181.354.398
new2 5,181.354.274
it's2 5,181.354.185
o3 7,772.024.108
when2 5,181.353.084
hae3 7,772.023.029
but4 10,362.692.821
for5 12,953.372.714
wi6 15,544.042.607
if2 5,181.352.071
see2 5,181.351.937
an6 15,544.041.747
been2 5,181.351.565
you2 5,181.351.541
we3 7,772.021.113
at4 10,362.690.801
no2 5,181.350.746
aboot2 5,181.350.524
it6 15,544.040.415
tae10 25,906.740.353
in5 12,953.370.185
on3 7,772.020.155
oot2 5,181.350.082
as2 5,181.350.055
a11 28,497.410.009
büdies2 5,181.35nan
she2 5,181.350.000