A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Moar, Paul

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 386
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 229
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.686
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, a, tae, and, i, was, fae, an, it, wi,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2021 September 12 at 6:01 PM) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (40 words)


Facebook (September 17, 2021) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (79 words)


Facebook (May 10, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (108 words)


Facebook (June 29, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (142 words)


Facebook (October 15, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (17 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
da19 49,222.8078.577
ertie3 7,772.0239.120
old4 10,362.6934.476
was7 18,134.7228.289
i'm4 10,362.6925.620
place-names2 5,181.3524.890
dis5 12,953.3722.012
rasmie2 5,181.3521.616
meaning2 5,181.3520.144
fishing2 5,181.3519.848
town2 5,181.3519.314
email2 5,181.3518.229
dem3 7,772.0217.898
peerie3 7,772.0217.748
sand2 5,181.3517.697
nothing2 5,181.3516.943
do3 7,772.0215.892
and10 25,906.7412.412
trow2 5,181.3512.286
caad2 5,181.3512.083
show2 5,181.3511.394
eftir2 5,181.3511.016
fae6 15,544.0410.866
just3 7,772.0210.465
sign2 5,181.3510.432
line2 5,181.359.904
something2 5,181.358.774
i8 20,725.398.666
different2 5,181.358.071
my3 7,772.027.882
dey2 5,181.357.612
let2 5,181.356.592
ken3 7,772.025.920
mind2 5,181.354.399
new2 5,181.354.280
it's2 5,181.354.190
o3 7,772.024.092
when2 5,181.353.083
hae3 7,772.023.036
but4 10,362.692.826
for5 12,953.372.724
wi6 15,544.042.609
if2 5,181.352.072
see2 5,181.351.938
an6 15,544.041.741
been2 5,181.351.565
you2 5,181.351.539
we3 7,772.021.113
at4 10,362.690.800
no2 5,181.350.742
aboot2 5,181.350.524
it6 15,544.040.413
tae10 25,906.740.353
in5 12,953.370.183
on3 7,772.020.157
oot2 5,181.350.081
as2 5,181.350.056
a11 28,497.410.009
büdies2 5,181.35nan
she2 5,181.350.000