A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Ritch, Paolo

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 211
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 136
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.551
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, a, an, i, he, at, dat, o, wi, mind,

List of texts in corpus

A Remembrance Day
Shetland For Wirds (01-01-2008) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (211 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
da16 75,829.3879.864
ould2 9,478.6726.406
dat4 18,957.3525.915
willie2 9,478.6716.881
laek2 9,478.6714.057
i7 33,175.3612.748
mind3 14,218.0112.147
ta2 9,478.678.627
last2 9,478.677.900
war2 9,478.676.510
could2 9,478.676.149
he5 23,696.683.755
ae2 9,478.673.659
at4 18,957.353.418
wi4 18,957.352.649
fur2 9,478.672.289
a10 47,393.362.057
tae2 9,478.671.801
or2 9,478.671.671
yaeh2 9,478.67nan
on3 14,218.011.647
we2 9,478.671.173
an8 37,914.691.173
as2 9,478.670.341
fowt2 9,478.67nan
his2 9,478.670.445
wis3 14,218.010.311
o4 18,957.350.027