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 13,986.0126.604
shu2 13,986.0126.067
everyone2 13,986.0123.288
all3 20,979.0220.939
dad2 13,986.0115.823
mam2 13,986.0115.493
little2 13,986.0114.266
i6 41,958.0413.471
ta2 13,986.0110.126
will2 13,986.017.504
fae3 20,979.027.032
auld2 13,986.015.824
time2 13,986.014.784
da2 13,986.013.652
the4 27,972.032.942
me2 13,986.012.859
a2 13,986.011.443
for2 13,986.011.244
is2 13,986.011.047
at2 13,986.010.951
and2 13,986.010.886
in2 13,986.010.025