A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Stout, Michael

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 193
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 121
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.595
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, a, tae, o, an, fae, ropp, in, wis, banks,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (July 10, 2016) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as social (193 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
da17 88,082.9089.969
ropp4 20,725.3963.828
banks3 15,544.0427.910
noose2 10,362.6927.666
haad2 10,362.6923.967
yowes2 10,362.6920.812
girnin2 10,362.6920.145
dat3 15,544.0418.235
idder2 10,362.6916.618
especially2 10,362.6916.256
hingin2 10,362.6914.094
used2 10,362.6912.208
whin2 10,362.6912.107
dey2 10,362.6910.272
fae4 20,725.399.219
mind2 10,362.696.898
get2 10,362.694.785
if2 10,362.694.265
you2 10,362.693.606
as3 15,544.041.995
up2 10,362.691.471
wi3 15,544.041.303
a8 41,450.780.891
i2 10,362.690.520
wis3 15,544.040.480
at2 10,362.690.400
in4 20,725.390.302
o5 25,906.740.252
tae5 25,906.740.176
it2 10,362.690.037
an5 25,906.740.002