A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mainland, Jim

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 296
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 178
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.663
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, da, an, wis, i, o, ta, he, on, it,

List of texts in corpus

Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North
University of Edinburgh (2014 ) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (120 words)
Love (After Miroslav Holub)
Shetland For Wirds (2001) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (75 words)

Performance (After Les Murray)
Shetland For Wirds (2001) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (101 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
da15 50,675.6862.910
ta6 20,270.2734.874
ida3 10,135.1431.036
hunder3 10,135.1428.652
waalkin2 6,756.7626.005
daek2 6,756.7621.925
saa2 6,756.7615.365
i8 27,027.0312.133
a20 67,567.5711.174
didna3 10,135.1411.143
if4 13,513.5110.495
whin2 6,756.7610.346
hoo2 6,756.768.744
wis9 30,405.418.003
lik2 6,756.767.031
wan2 6,756.766.401
ony2 6,756.765.116
an14 47,297.304.411
he6 20,270.273.300
aye2 6,756.762.995
or3 10,135.142.696
mair2 6,756.761.964
on4 13,513.511.923
him2 6,756.761.312
fae2 6,756.761.249
as3 10,135.140.650
we2 6,756.760.454
breer2 6,756.76nan
at3 10,135.140.544
wi3 10,135.140.253
o7 23,648.650.124
in4 13,513.510.088
it4 13,513.510.076
his2 6,756.760.052