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 34,246.5858.013
haand3 20,547.9536.404
dayset2 13,698.6331.706
loard2 13,698.6329.980
dy3 20,547.9529.400
da7 47,945.2128.561
seas2 13,698.6323.748
hadd2 13,698.6323.213
dees2 13,698.6322.742
winds2 13,698.6321.122
ower5 34,246.5818.138
never3 20,547.9517.979
wind2 13,698.6314.802
black2 13,698.6312.642
emmers2 13,698.63nan
head2 13,698.6316.995
fitful2 13,698.63nan
sall2 13,698.6320.701
flans3 20,547.95nan
blaa2 13,698.6328.795
hert2 13,698.6312.066
aa3 20,547.959.047
lang2 13,698.636.757
d2 13,698.634.889
frae2 13,698.634.475
fae2 13,698.633.207
nae2 13,698.633.139
in5 34,246.582.480
at2 13,698.630.919
o2 13,698.630.385
an4 27,397.260.024