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 44,642.8657.370
du5 44,642.8647.589
da6 53,571.4325.762
ida2 17,857.1422.823
peerie2 17,857.1415.117
ll3 26,785.7113.343
ta2 17,857.1411.087
life2 17,857.149.728
as3 26,785.714.306
for2 17,857.141.902
is2 17,857.141.649
s2 17,857.141.147
o3 26,785.710.196
a3 26,785.710.025