A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Fullerton, Beth

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 68
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 47
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.447
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - dey, sho, an, wir, wis, on, a, laying, lucky, if,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (August 20, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (68 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
sho4 58,823.5360.596
dey4 58,823.5334.480
laying2 29,411.7633.068
tocht2 29,411.7624.061
lucky2 29,411.7620.885
wir3 44,117.6520.303
dan2 29,411.7618.783
if2 29,411.768.096
back2 29,411.766.975
on3 44,117.656.774
wis3 44,117.654.283
an3 44,117.650.797
a2 29,411.760.000