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	52.491
will	7	35,000.00	38.889
fok	3	15,000.00	34.258
you	6	30,000.00	22.760
aa	6	30,000.00	21.862
group	3	15,000.00	20.703
be	8	40,000.00	19.451
different	3	15,000.00	18.290
spell	2	10,000.00	17.782
wirds	3	15,000.00	16.393
we	6	30,000.00	13.832
dialect	2	10,000.00	12.913
ony	3	15,000.00	12.114
foo	2	10,000.00	11.135
o'	2	10,000.00	10.536
da	4	20,000.00	9.813
your	2	10,000.00	9.178
ta	2	10,000.00	8.863
dis	2	10,000.00	7.832
it	7	35,000.00	6.098
can	2	10,000.00	4.173
as	4	20,000.00	3.951
nae	2	10,000.00	2.174
für	2	10,000.00	nan
for	3	15,000.00	2.162
i	3	15,000.00	2.019
is	3	15,000.00	1.816
tae	2	10,000.00	1.563
in	2	10,000.00	0.468
a	5	25,000.00	0.141