A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Sinclair, Michelle

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 143
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 113
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.265
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - i, the, fae, all, shu, will, everyone, in, for, auld,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (November 9, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (143 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
sare2 13,986.0126.612
shu2 13,986.0126.075
everyone2 13,986.0123.054
all3 20,979.0220.927
dad2 13,986.0115.718
mam2 13,986.0115.501
little2 13,986.0114.173
i6 41,958.0413.348
ta2 13,986.0110.135
will2 13,986.017.477
fae3 20,979.026.968
auld2 13,986.015.819
time2 13,986.014.759
da2 13,986.013.660
the4 27,972.032.926
me2 13,986.012.751
a2 13,986.011.455
for2 13,986.011.270
is2 13,986.011.049
at2 13,986.010.964
and2 13,986.010.873
in2 13,986.010.024