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 50,675.6862.590
ta6 20,270.2734.696
ida3 10,135.1430.918
hunder3 10,135.1428.534
waalkin2 6,756.7625.926
daek2 6,756.7621.846
saa2 6,756.7615.287
i8 27,027.0311.916
a20 67,567.5711.197
didna3 10,135.1411.084
whin2 6,756.7610.386
if4 13,513.5110.364
hoo2 6,756.768.911
wis9 30,405.417.894
lik2 6,756.767.019
wan2 6,756.766.329
ony2 6,756.765.218
an14 47,297.304.579
he6 20,270.273.334
aye2 6,756.763.105
or3 10,135.142.772
mair2 6,756.762.003
on4 13,513.511.964
him2 6,756.761.312
fae2 6,756.761.238
as3 10,135.140.677
we2 6,756.760.493
breer2 6,756.76nan
at3 10,135.140.556
wi3 10,135.140.260
o7 23,648.650.140
in4 13,513.510.083
it4 13,513.510.066
his2 6,756.760.055