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 50,675.6862.791
ta6 20,270.2734.783
ida3 10,135.1430.963
hunder3 10,135.1428.578
waalkin2 6,756.7625.955
daek2 6,756.7621.876
saa2 6,756.7615.316
i8 27,027.0311.895
a20 67,567.5711.231
didna3 10,135.1411.126
whin2 6,756.7610.414
if4 13,513.5110.381
hoo2 6,756.768.861
wis9 30,405.417.897
lik2 6,756.767.047
wan2 6,756.766.318
ony2 6,756.765.236
an14 47,297.304.616
he6 20,270.273.353
aye2 6,756.763.098
or3 10,135.142.774
mair2 6,756.762.002
on4 13,513.511.966
him2 6,756.761.315
fae2 6,756.761.202
as3 10,135.140.664
we2 6,756.760.487
breer2 6,756.76nan
at3 10,135.140.549
wi3 10,135.140.261
o7 23,648.650.136
in4 13,513.510.086
it4 13,513.510.068
his2 6,756.760.056