A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Tait, Christian

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 112
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 84
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.333
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, du, dy, ll, as, o, a, ta, ida, life,

List of texts in corpus

Da Hegri
Shetland For Wirds (01-11-2001) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (112 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
dy5 44,642.8657.544
du5 44,642.8647.584
da6 53,571.4325.752
ida2 17,857.1422.821
peerie2 17,857.1415.115
ll3 26,785.7113.449
ta2 17,857.1411.085
life2 17,857.149.744
as3 26,785.714.267
for2 17,857.141.877
is2 17,857.141.648
s2 17,857.141.190
o3 26,785.710.193
a3 26,785.710.024