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	55.273
grind	4	16,129.03	54.440
grinds	3	12,096.77	43.361
dat	4	16,129.03	24.615
toll	2	8,064.52	23.381
rod	2	8,064.52	20.606
weekend	2	8,064.52	19.458
similar	2	8,064.52	19.138
discussion	2	8,064.52	19.138
laek	2	8,064.52	13.408
dir	2	8,064.52	13.198
dis	3	12,096.77	12.771
edinburgh	2	8,064.52	12.429
hill	2	8,064.52	11.514
used	2	8,064.52	11.239
mebbe	2	8,064.52	10.795
very	2	8,064.52	10.758
different	2	8,064.52	9.764
dey	2	8,064.52	9.296
wirds	2	8,064.52	8.458
just	2	8,064.52	7.260
wir	2	8,064.52	6.853
could	2	8,064.52	5.562
come	2	8,064.52	5.466
in	9	36,290.32	5.051
is	5	20,161.29	4.951
wid	2	8,064.52	4.554
afore	2	8,064.52	4.275
said	2	8,064.52	3.786
some	2	8,064.52	3.737
but	3	12,096.77	2.760
at	4	16,129.03	2.561
ower	2	8,064.52	2.241
wis	5	20,161.29	1.917
fur	2	8,064.52	1.880
fae	2	8,064.52	1.677
i	3	12,096.77	1.259
tae	8	32,258.06	1.194
we	2	8,064.52	0.803
an	5	20,161.29	0.320
joppa	2	8,064.52	nan
o	7	28,225.81	0.637
for	2	8,064.52	0.223
navir	2	8,064.52	nan
a	8	32,258.06	0.078