A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Irvine, Chloe

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 174
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 120
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.45
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - i, du, a, you, un, im, me, whut, but, dirs,

List of texts in corpus

Untitled Poem
The Scotsman (Wednesday, March 24, 2021) in Shetland (Whalsay) dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (174 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
du8 45,977.0176.784
un5 28,735.6368.024
dirs3 17,241.3845.505
im4 22,988.5140.867
whut3 17,241.3827.941
niffer2 11,494.2527.175
tu2 11,494.2523.036
i8 45,977.0119.079
you5 28,735.6318.167
yur2 11,494.2516.132
ir2 11,494.2511.123
dat2 11,494.2510.960
lik2 11,494.259.063
me4 22,988.518.777
wir2 11,494.258.226
seen2 11,494.257.616
see2 11,494.254.458
dyit2 11,494.25nan
if2 11,494.254.624
tyeen2 11,494.25nan
but3 17,241.384.284
is2 11,494.250.641
a6 34,482.760.156
dunnoo2 11,494.25nan
fur2 11,494.252.879