A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Watt, Roseanne

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 541
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 306
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.768
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - de, o, i, dy, dat, a, me, du, an, tae,

List of texts in corpus

Moder Dy
Polygon (2019-05-23 ) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (541 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
de36 66,543.44423.905
dy11 20,332.72105.791
du10 18,484.2976.411
dat10 18,484.2963.795
du's4 7,393.7245.268
aert3 5,545.2935.840
lik6 11,090.5726.684
slockit2 3,696.8624.717
saand2 3,696.8623.534
dese2 3,696.8623.534
whaar3 5,545.2923.261
blöd2 3,696.8622.627
rees3 5,545.29nan
joost3 5,545.2923.396
shoormal2 3,696.8622.627
uncan2 3,696.8621.890
steps3 5,545.2920.697
dere3 5,545.2919.595
laeve2 3,696.8619.110
wirld2 3,696.8618.494
apo2 3,696.8618.494
me10 18,484.2918.204
veins2 3,696.8617.961
saat2 3,696.8617.719
dem3 5,545.2915.793
i12 22,181.1514.150
island2 3,696.8613.941
ide3 5,545.29nan
mindin2 3,696.8613.060
wance2 3,696.8612.717
fir4 7,393.7212.616
ir3 5,545.2912.396
dee3 5,545.2912.356
licht3 5,545.2912.027
made4 7,393.7211.486
lass2 3,696.8611.126
mibbe2 3,696.8610.676
wirds3 5,545.2910.528
my4 7,393.7210.118
dir2 3,696.8610.072
o23 42,513.869.907
wye3 5,545.299.680
atween3 5,545.299.480
sang2 3,696.868.756
wilt2 3,696.86nan
here4 7,393.728.442
wan3 5,545.298.422
dis3 5,545.298.394
fin3 5,545.297.317
dey2 3,696.866.325
ta2 3,696.865.108
gied2 3,696.864.953
its3 5,545.294.621
wir2 3,696.864.082
by3 5,545.293.351
see3 5,545.293.188
it's2 3,696.863.067
an8 14,787.432.876
is6 11,090.571.725
hae3 5,545.291.719
da3 5,545.291.522
tae8 14,787.431.261
noo2 3,696.861.059
as2 3,696.860.593
whit2 3,696.860.475
wis7 12,939.000.384
wi3 5,545.290.290
her2 3,696.860.241
no2 3,696.860.208
gaets2 3,696.86nan
a10 18,484.292.550