A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Priest, Ena

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 683
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 293
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.331
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, an, wis, mansie, tae, a, we, he, o, hit,

List of texts in corpus

Bonxie Geo
Young Shetland Writer (01-01-2010) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as prose (683 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
da56 81,991.22289.194
mansie20 29,282.58285.805
mast7 10,248.9096.683
wave7 10,248.9063.527
boat7 10,248.9055.150
hit10 14,641.2950.371
peter5 7,320.6442.992
shop6 8,784.7740.332
spar3 4,392.3939.504
dat7 10,248.9036.923
geo3 4,392.3933.423
röf3 4,392.3933.423
cave4 5,856.5230.857
braaly3 4,392.3928.576
fir7 10,248.9026.473
coorser2 2,928.2625.513
sail3 4,392.3925.435
hed6 8,784.7725.187
laet2 2,928.2623.789
mibee2 2,928.2620.962
we13 19,033.6720.442
boddam2 2,928.2620.342
gaet2 2,928.2620.342
med3 4,392.3919.584
wye5 7,320.6418.820
mell2 2,928.2618.183
saat2 2,928.2617.293
yis2 2,928.2617.036
wis20 29,282.5816.550
beenie4 5,856.52nan
ivry2 2,928.2616.147
wisna4 5,856.5214.426
waas2 2,928.2613.114
sea3 4,392.3912.851
dis4 5,856.5211.638
an33 48,316.2511.575
wid5 7,320.6410.615
trow2 2,928.2610.052
wanted2 2,928.269.970
bonxie3 4,392.39nan
dan2 2,928.269.624
ony4 5,856.529.477
eftir2 2,928.268.802
passed2 2,928.268.519
gied3 4,392.398.386
lik3 4,392.398.202
start2 2,928.268.083
able2 2,928.267.608
sixt3 4,392.39nan
up8 11,713.037.169
hame-trow3 4,392.39nan
seevint3 4,392.39nan
him6 8,784.776.029
still3 4,392.395.779
coorse2 2,928.265.283
he12 17,569.554.838
aa4 5,856.523.766
awa3 4,392.393.473
wan2 2,928.263.397
his8 11,713.033.348
richt3 4,392.393.170
fine2 2,928.263.058
a13 19,033.672.879
in6 8,784.772.436
by3 4,392.392.392
tak2 2,928.262.273
see3 4,392.392.248
muckle2 2,928.262.059
got2 2,928.261.880
and2 2,928.261.838
so2 2,928.261.504
aboot4 5,856.521.503
is2 2,928.261.450
ll2 2,928.261.349
weel2 2,928.261.310
i2 2,928.261.293
watslure2 2,928.26nan
doon3 4,392.391.211
whit3 4,392.391.187
as6 8,784.770.718
errants2 2,928.26nan
o11 16,105.420.722
be2 2,928.260.713
on6 8,784.770.695
if2 2,928.260.692
noo2 2,928.260.588
at3 4,392.390.490
oot4 5,856.520.394
day2 2,928.260.293
back2 2,928.260.224
ower2 2,928.260.137
tae16 23,426.060.132
s6 8,784.770.129
but3 4,392.390.038