A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mainland, Jim

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 296
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 178
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.663
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, da, an, wis, i, o, ta, he, on, it,

List of texts in corpus

Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North
University of Edinburgh (2014 ) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (120 words)
Love (After Miroslav Holub)
Shetland For Wirds (2001) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (75 words)

Performance (After Les Murray)
Shetland For Wirds (2001) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (101 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
da15 50,675.6862.744
ta6 20,270.2734.764
ida3 10,135.1430.953
hunder3 10,135.1428.569
waalkin2 6,756.7625.949
daek2 6,756.7621.870
saa2 6,756.7615.310
i8 27,027.0311.879
a20 67,567.5711.229
didna3 10,135.1411.117
whin2 6,756.7610.408
if4 13,513.5110.378
hoo2 6,756.768.855
wis9 30,405.417.877
lik2 6,756.767.041
wan2 6,756.766.350
ony2 6,756.765.235
an14 47,297.304.605
he6 20,270.273.358
aye2 6,756.763.110
or3 10,135.142.769
mair2 6,756.761.998
on4 13,513.511.959
him2 6,756.761.317
fae2 6,756.761.206
as3 10,135.140.669
we2 6,756.760.486
breer2 6,756.76nan
at3 10,135.140.549
wi3 10,135.140.260
o7 23,648.650.133
in4 13,513.510.087
it4 13,513.510.069
his2 6,756.760.056