A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Graham, Laurence

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 146
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 94
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.553
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, whaar, ower, in, an, never, aa, haand, dy, flans,

List of texts in corpus

Flans Frae Da Haaf
Shetland For Wirds (2000) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (146 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
whaar5 34,246.5858.136
haand3 20,547.9536.477
dayset2 13,698.6331.755
loard2 13,698.6330.029
dy3 20,547.9529.783
da7 47,945.2128.616
seas2 13,698.6323.797
hadd2 13,698.6323.262
dees2 13,698.6322.791
winds2 13,698.6321.171
never3 20,547.9518.334
ower5 34,246.5818.128
wind2 13,698.6314.942
black2 13,698.6312.796
emmers2 13,698.63nan
head2 13,698.6316.992
fitful2 13,698.63nan
sall2 13,698.6320.750
flans3 20,547.95nan
blaa2 13,698.6327.936
hert2 13,698.6312.144
aa3 20,547.958.805
lang2 13,698.636.740
d2 13,698.634.880
frae2 13,698.634.418
fae2 13,698.633.270
nae2 13,698.633.132
in5 34,246.582.469
at2 13,698.630.915
o2 13,698.630.397
an4 27,397.260.015