A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Sinclair, Lise

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 259
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 164
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.579
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, an, o, a, wis, ida, on, heem, t, aes,

List of texts in corpus

Juist laek Maunna
Shetland For Wirds (2010) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (176 words)

Fauld up da Feddoms
Shetland For Wirds (01-01-2006) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (83 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
da22 84,942.08115.092
ida5 19,305.0258.676
heem3 11,583.0137.701
annidder2 7,722.0129.450
nu2 7,722.0129.450
sails2 7,722.0122.842
laek3 11,583.0122.383
silver2 7,722.0117.725
weeks2 7,722.0113.186
dark2 7,722.0112.664
duys2 7,722.01nan
spuin2 7,722.0126.540
t3 11,583.0110.860
duy3 11,583.01nan
aes3 11,583.01nan
shugger2 7,722.01nan
dey2 7,722.019.184
fer2 7,722.019.111
wir2 7,722.016.739
on5 19,305.024.624
ain2 7,722.014.548
ll2 7,722.014.351
efter2 7,722.014.334
tae2 7,722.013.087
we3 11,583.012.433
wis5 19,305.021.757
an10 38,610.041.484
o8 30,888.031.162
up2 7,722.010.782
but2 7,722.010.764
s3 11,583.010.523
i2 7,722.010.145
a8 30,888.030.021
meyn2 7,722.01nan
wi2 7,722.010.002
nauthin2 7,722.01nan
dat2 7,722.019.463
sitht2 7,722.01nan
new2 7,722.015.733