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 13,986.0126.606
shu2 13,986.0126.069
everyone2 13,986.0123.048
all3 20,979.0220.918
dad2 13,986.0115.712
mam2 13,986.0115.495
little2 13,986.0114.166
i6 41,958.0413.334
ta2 13,986.0110.128
will2 13,986.017.471
fae3 20,979.026.978
auld2 13,986.015.818
time2 13,986.014.753
da2 13,986.013.655
the4 27,972.032.924
me2 13,986.012.750
a2 13,986.011.455
for2 13,986.011.266
is2 13,986.011.047
at2 13,986.010.965
and2 13,986.010.870
in2 13,986.010.025