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	55.438
grind	4	16,129.03	54.555
grinds	3	12,096.77	43.447
dat	4	16,129.03	24.729
toll	2	8,064.52	23.439
rod	2	8,064.52	20.664
weekend	2	8,064.52	19.515
similar	2	8,064.52	19.196
discussion	2	8,064.52	19.196
laek	2	8,064.52	13.464
dir	2	8,064.52	13.255
dis	3	12,096.77	12.844
edinburgh	2	8,064.52	12.486
hill	2	8,064.52	11.399
used	2	8,064.52	11.174
very	2	8,064.52	10.761
mebbe	2	8,064.52	10.690
different	2	8,064.52	9.751
dey	2	8,064.52	9.351
wirds	2	8,064.52	8.513
just	2	8,064.52	7.293
wir	2	8,064.52	6.901
could	2	8,064.52	5.605
come	2	8,064.52	5.493
in	9	36,290.32	5.042
is	5	20,161.29	4.955
wid	2	8,064.52	4.603
afore	2	8,064.52	4.274
said	2	8,064.52	3.797
some	2	8,064.52	3.755
but	3	12,096.77	2.759
at	4	16,129.03	2.580
ower	2	8,064.52	2.257
wis	5	20,161.29	1.973
fur	2	8,064.52	1.830
fae	2	8,064.52	1.696
i	3	12,096.77	1.281
tae	8	32,258.06	1.188
we	2	8,064.52	0.776
an	5	20,161.29	0.333
joppa	2	8,064.52	nan
o	7	28,225.81	0.629
for	2	8,064.52	0.235
navir	2	8,064.52	nan
a	8	32,258.06	0.071