A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Graham, Laurence

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 146
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 94
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.553
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, whaar, ower, in, an, never, aa, haand, dy, flans,

List of texts in corpus

Flans Frae Da Haaf
Shetland For Wirds (2000) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (146 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
whaar5 34,246.5857.992
haand3 20,547.9536.391
dayset2 13,698.6331.697
loard2 13,698.6329.971
dy3 20,547.9529.697
da7 47,945.2128.528
seas2 13,698.6323.739
hadd2 13,698.6323.205
dees2 13,698.6322.734
winds2 13,698.6321.113
never3 20,547.9518.249
ower5 34,246.5818.074
wind2 13,698.6314.885
black2 13,698.6312.757
emmers2 13,698.63nan
head2 13,698.6317.039
fitful2 13,698.63nan
sall2 13,698.6320.692
flans3 20,547.95nan
blaa2 13,698.6327.879
hert2 13,698.6312.087
aa3 20,547.958.881
lang2 13,698.636.728
d2 13,698.634.909
frae2 13,698.634.433
fae2 13,698.633.246
nae2 13,698.633.128
in5 34,246.582.474
at2 13,698.630.907
o2 13,698.630.393
an4 27,397.260.018