Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mainland-Sinclair, Marina Jane

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 200
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 122
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.639
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - be, will, an', it, we, aa, you, a, da, as,

List of texts in corpus

Facebook (September 8,2017) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (200 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
an'	7	35,000.00	52.534
will	7	35,000.00	38.690
fok	3	15,000.00	34.184
aa	6	30,000.00	22.360
you	6	30,000.00	22.290
group	3	15,000.00	20.757
be	8	40,000.00	19.430
different	3	15,000.00	18.322
spell	2	10,000.00	17.648
wirds	3	15,000.00	16.321
we	6	30,000.00	14.043
dialect	2	10,000.00	12.865
ony	3	15,000.00	12.307
foo	2	10,000.00	11.150
o'	2	10,000.00	10.584
da	4	20,000.00	9.783
your	2	10,000.00	9.010
ta	2	10,000.00	8.833
dis	2	10,000.00	7.805
it	7	35,000.00	6.023
can	2	10,000.00	4.142
as	4	20,000.00	3.985
nae	2	10,000.00	2.180
für	2	10,000.00	nan
for	3	15,000.00	2.165
i	3	15,000.00	1.950
is	3	15,000.00	1.818
tae	2	10,000.00	1.541
in	2	10,000.00	0.464
a	5	25,000.00	0.136