A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Tait, Christian

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 112
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 84
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.333
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, du, dy, ll, as, o, a, ta, ida, life,

List of texts in corpus

Da Hegri
Shetland For Wirds (01-11-2001) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (112 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
dy5 44,642.8657.687
du5 44,642.8647.728
da6 53,571.4325.828
ida2 17,857.1422.879
peerie2 17,857.1415.172
ll3 26,785.7113.438
ta2 17,857.1411.124
life2 17,857.149.745
as3 26,785.714.270
for2 17,857.141.904
is2 17,857.141.650
s2 17,857.141.190
o3 26,785.710.189
a3 26,785.710.027