FR-BSKY-ALO-2025-2026 Corpus

FR-BSKY-ALO-2025-2026 is a corpus of anonymized, publicly available Bluesky posts collected for research and pedagogical purposes to explore lexical variation in French, between sorte and espèce, on the one hand, and between enfin, finalement, au final, and à la fin, on the other. Using Blueskyscraper (Moncomble, 2026), data collection was carried out with the participation of students enrolled in the course Analyse linguistique outillée (second-year undergraduate level, academic year 2025–2026), at the Université de Poitiers, under the academic and technical supervision of of the course instructors. The collection comprises 278,786 posts, published between 1 February 2025 and 27 January 2026, from all user accounts. Contents Data type: collection of anonymized Bluesky posts Created at: 2026-03-15 Language: FR Coverage: all user accounts; 278,786 posts; 8,482,783 tokens Time of data collection: start=2025-02-01; end=2026-01-27 Keywords: espèce(s), sorte(s), enfin, finalement, à la fin, au final Corpus composition: Query term NB posts NB tokens espèce 20,385 645,572 sorte 31,131 1,046,910 enfin 133,274 3,735,133 finalement 43,944 1,314,524 à la fin 30,156 1,023,178 au final 19,896 717,466 TOTAL 278,786 8,482,783