A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Irvine, Chloe

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 174
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 120
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.45
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - i, du, a, you, un, im, me, whut, but, dirs,

List of texts in corpus

Untitled Poem
The Scotsman (Wednesday, March 24, 2021) in Shetland (Whalsay) dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (174 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
du8 45,977.0176.810
un5 28,735.6368.040
dirs3 17,241.3845.515
im4 22,988.5140.880
whut3 17,241.3827.951
niffer2 11,494.2527.181
tu2 11,494.2523.042
i8 45,977.0119.097
you5 28,735.6318.163
yur2 11,494.2516.139
ir2 11,494.2511.130
dat2 11,494.2510.966
lik2 11,494.259.070
me4 22,988.518.780
wir2 11,494.258.232
seen2 11,494.257.612
see2 11,494.254.459
dyit2 11,494.25nan
if2 11,494.254.625
tyeen2 11,494.25nan
but3 17,241.384.289
is2 11,494.250.643
a6 34,482.760.156
dunnoo2 11,494.25nan
fur2 11,494.252.872