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	55.335
grind	4	16,129.03	54.457
grinds	3	12,096.77	43.374
dat	4	16,129.03	24.632
toll	2	8,064.52	23.389
rod	2	8,064.52	20.615
weekend	2	8,064.52	19.466
discussion	2	8,064.52	19.147
similar	2	8,064.52	18.996
laek	2	8,064.52	13.416
dir	2	8,064.52	13.206
dis	3	12,096.77	12.803
edinburgh	2	8,064.52	12.437
hill	2	8,064.52	11.545
used	2	8,064.52	11.226
mebbe	2	8,064.52	10.803
very	2	8,064.52	10.749
different	2	8,064.52	9.773
dey	2	8,064.52	9.304
wirds	2	8,064.52	8.466
just	2	8,064.52	7.112
wir	2	8,064.52	6.892
could	2	8,064.52	5.561
come	2	8,064.52	5.470
in	9	36,290.32	5.063
is	5	20,161.29	4.959
wid	2	8,064.52	4.576
afore	2	8,064.52	4.341
said	2	8,064.52	3.770
some	2	8,064.52	3.740
but	3	12,096.77	2.727
at	4	16,129.03	2.589
ower	2	8,064.52	2.260
wis	5	20,161.29	1.930
fur	2	8,064.52	1.832
fae	2	8,064.52	1.645
i	3	12,096.77	1.222
tae	8	32,258.06	1.214
we	2	8,064.52	0.817
joppa	2	8,064.52	nan
o	7	28,225.81	0.653
an	5	20,161.29	0.291
for	2	8,064.52	0.236
navir	2	8,064.52	nan
a	8	32,258.06	0.074