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	52.511
will	7	35,000.00	38.668
fok	3	15,000.00	34.174
aa	6	30,000.00	22.342
you	6	30,000.00	22.295
group	3	15,000.00	20.748
be	8	40,000.00	19.434
different	3	15,000.00	18.313
spell	2	10,000.00	17.727
wirds	3	15,000.00	16.312
we	6	30,000.00	14.041
dialect	2	10,000.00	12.859
ony	3	15,000.00	12.305
foo	2	10,000.00	11.144
o'	2	10,000.00	10.577
da	4	20,000.00	9.772
your	2	10,000.00	9.004
ta	2	10,000.00	8.827
dis	2	10,000.00	7.799
it	7	35,000.00	6.030
can	2	10,000.00	4.136
as	4	20,000.00	3.995
nae	2	10,000.00	2.180
für	2	10,000.00	nan
for	3	15,000.00	2.159
i	3	15,000.00	1.945
is	3	15,000.00	1.814
tae	2	10,000.00	1.541
in	2	10,000.00	0.465
a	5	25,000.00	0.136