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 34,246.5857.997
haand3 20,547.9536.394
dayset2 13,698.6331.699
loard2 13,698.6329.973
dy3 20,547.9529.595
da7 47,945.2128.539
seas2 13,698.6323.741
hadd2 13,698.6323.207
dees2 13,698.6322.736
winds2 13,698.6321.115
ower5 34,246.5818.122
never3 20,547.9517.999
wind2 13,698.6314.796
black2 13,698.6312.636
emmers2 13,698.63nan
head2 13,698.6317.041
fitful2 13,698.63nan
sall2 13,698.6320.694
flans3 20,547.95nan
blaa2 13,698.6328.789
hert2 13,698.6312.059
aa3 20,547.959.038
lang2 13,698.636.751
d2 13,698.634.885
frae2 13,698.634.470
fae2 13,698.633.213
nae2 13,698.633.139
in5 34,246.582.476
at2 13,698.630.919
o2 13,698.630.388
an4 27,397.260.024