A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mainland, Jim

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 296
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 178
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.663
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, da, an, wis, i, o, ta, he, on, it,

List of texts in corpus

Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North
University of Edinburgh (2014 ) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (120 words)
Love (After Miroslav Holub)
Shetland For Wirds (2001) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (75 words)

Performance (After Les Murray)
Shetland For Wirds (2001) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (101 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
da15 50,675.6862.719
ta6 20,270.2734.758
ida3 10,135.1430.950
hunder3 10,135.1428.566
waalkin2 6,756.7625.947
daek2 6,756.7621.868
saa2 6,756.7615.308
i8 27,027.0312.044
a20 67,567.5711.290
didna3 10,135.1411.062
if4 13,513.5110.514
whin2 6,756.7610.367
hoo2 6,756.768.853
wis9 30,405.417.866
lik2 6,756.767.039
wan2 6,756.766.432
ony2 6,756.765.087
an14 47,297.304.476
he6 20,270.273.297
aye2 6,756.762.988
or3 10,135.142.719
mair2 6,756.761.974
on4 13,513.511.937
him2 6,756.761.305
fae2 6,756.761.231
as3 10,135.140.649
we2 6,756.760.476
breer2 6,756.76nan
at3 10,135.140.536
wi3 10,135.140.249
o7 23,648.650.128
in4 13,513.510.087
it4 13,513.510.076
his2 6,756.760.051