Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Barclay, Robin

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 248
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 149
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.664
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, in, tae, a, o, wis, an, is, at, grind,

List of texts in corpus

Facebook (November 6, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (146 words)

Facebook (October 2, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (102 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
da	13	52,419.35	55.295
grind	4	16,129.03	54.444
grinds	3	12,096.77	43.364
dat	4	16,129.03	24.619
toll	2	8,064.52	23.383
rod	2	8,064.52	20.608
weekend	2	8,064.52	19.460
discussion	2	8,064.52	19.140
similar	2	8,064.52	18.990
laek	2	8,064.52	13.409
dir	2	8,064.52	13.200
dis	3	12,096.77	12.794
edinburgh	2	8,064.52	12.459
hill	2	8,064.52	11.538
used	2	8,064.52	11.220
mebbe	2	8,064.52	10.797
very	2	8,064.52	10.742
different	2	8,064.52	9.766
dey	2	8,064.52	9.298
wirds	2	8,064.52	8.460
just	2	8,064.52	7.112
wir	2	8,064.52	6.886
could	2	8,064.52	5.572
come	2	8,064.52	5.464
in	9	36,290.32	5.056
is	5	20,161.29	4.952
wid	2	8,064.52	4.571
afore	2	8,064.52	4.338
said	2	8,064.52	3.804
some	2	8,064.52	3.739
but	3	12,096.77	2.723
at	4	16,129.03	2.590
ower	2	8,064.52	2.256
wis	5	20,161.29	1.921
fur	2	8,064.52	1.838
fae	2	8,064.52	1.650
i	3	12,096.77	1.218
tae	8	32,258.06	1.213
we	2	8,064.52	0.816
joppa	2	8,064.52	nan
o	7	28,225.81	0.646
an	5	20,161.29	0.293
for	2	8,064.52	0.234
navir	2	8,064.52	nan
a	8	32,258.06	0.074