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	52.291
will	7	35,000.00	38.786
fok	3	15,000.00	34.171
you	6	30,000.00	22.646
aa	6	30,000.00	22.019
group	3	15,000.00	20.649
be	8	40,000.00	19.420
different	3	15,000.00	18.310
spell	2	10,000.00	17.725
wirds	3	15,000.00	16.309
we	6	30,000.00	13.973
dialect	2	10,000.00	12.857
ony	3	15,000.00	12.067
foo	2	10,000.00	11.078
o'	2	10,000.00	10.480
da	4	20,000.00	9.766
your	2	10,000.00	9.151
ta	2	10,000.00	8.825
dis	2	10,000.00	7.784
it	7	35,000.00	6.097
can	2	10,000.00	4.161
as	4	20,000.00	3.948
nae	2	10,000.00	2.170
für	2	10,000.00	nan
for	3	15,000.00	2.125
i	3	15,000.00	1.993
is	3	15,000.00	1.814
tae	2	10,000.00	1.557
in	2	10,000.00	0.466
a	5	25,000.00	0.132