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 88,082.9090.022
ropp4 20,725.3963.841
banks3 15,544.0427.920
noose2 10,362.6927.672
haad2 10,362.6923.974
yowes2 10,362.6920.819
girnin2 10,362.6920.152
dat3 15,544.0418.245
idder2 10,362.6916.624
especially2 10,362.6916.263
hingin2 10,362.6914.101
used2 10,362.6912.214
whin2 10,362.6912.113
dey2 10,362.6910.279
fae4 20,725.399.207
mind2 10,362.696.899
get2 10,362.694.785
if2 10,362.694.266
you2 10,362.693.605
as3 15,544.041.988
up2 10,362.691.469
wi3 15,544.041.304
a8 41,450.780.892
i2 10,362.690.522
wis3 15,544.040.484
at2 10,362.690.400
in4 20,725.390.303
o5 25,906.740.255
tae5 25,906.740.177
it2 10,362.690.037
an5 25,906.740.002