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 49,222.8078.727
ertie3 7,772.0239.193
old4 10,362.6934.723
was7 18,134.7227.524
i'm4 10,362.6925.765
place-names2 5,181.3524.940
dis5 12,953.3722.080
rasmie2 5,181.3521.665
meaning2 5,181.3520.193
fishing2 5,181.3519.897
town2 5,181.3519.363
email2 5,181.3519.121
dem3 7,772.0217.971
sand2 5,181.3517.915
peerie3 7,772.0217.820
nothing2 5,181.3516.992
do3 7,772.0216.073
and10 25,906.7412.620
trow2 5,181.3512.335
caad2 5,181.3511.753
show2 5,181.3511.248
eftir2 5,181.3511.064
fae6 15,544.0411.060
just3 7,772.0210.737
sign2 5,181.3510.353
line2 5,181.3510.089
i8 20,725.398.885
something2 5,181.358.707
different2 5,181.358.050
my3 7,772.027.953
dey2 5,181.357.658
let2 5,181.356.646
ken3 7,772.025.887
mind2 5,181.354.423
new2 5,181.354.322
it's2 5,181.354.228
o3 7,772.024.155
when2 5,181.353.239
hae3 7,772.022.972
but4 10,362.692.865
for5 12,953.372.719
wi6 15,544.042.580
if2 5,181.352.118
see2 5,181.351.944
an6 15,544.041.864
you2 5,181.351.648
been2 5,181.351.601
we3 7,772.021.054
at4 10,362.690.794
no2 5,181.350.776
aboot2 5,181.350.513
it6 15,544.040.436
tae10 25,906.740.337
in5 12,953.370.187
on3 7,772.020.145
oot2 5,181.350.084
as2 5,181.350.060
she2 5,181.350.001
büdies2 5,181.35nan
a11 28,497.410.010