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 13,986.0126.661
shu2 13,986.0126.124
everyone2 13,986.0123.346
all3 20,979.0220.883
dad2 13,986.0115.842
mam2 13,986.0115.550
little2 13,986.0114.122
i6 41,958.0413.544
ta2 13,986.0110.165
will2 13,986.017.532
fae3 20,979.027.070
auld2 13,986.015.858
time2 13,986.014.791
da2 13,986.013.674
the4 27,972.032.865
me2 13,986.012.848
a2 13,986.011.466
for2 13,986.011.268
is2 13,986.011.048
at2 13,986.010.960
and2 13,986.010.903
in2 13,986.010.025