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 88,082.9089.939
ropp4 20,725.3963.824
banks3 15,544.0427.804
noose2 10,362.6927.664
haad2 10,362.6923.965
yowes2 10,362.6920.810
girnin2 10,362.6920.300
dat3 15,544.0418.232
idder2 10,362.6916.616
especially2 10,362.6916.431
hingin2 10,362.6913.994
used2 10,362.6912.226
whin2 10,362.6912.065
dey2 10,362.6910.270
fae4 20,725.399.291
mind2 10,362.696.911
get2 10,362.694.842
if2 10,362.694.330
you2 10,362.693.708
as3 15,544.041.964
up2 10,362.691.458
wi3 15,544.041.281
a8 41,450.780.904
i2 10,362.690.543
wis3 15,544.040.478
at2 10,362.690.391
in4 20,725.390.301
o5 25,906.740.247
tae5 25,906.740.170
it2 10,362.690.033
an5 25,906.740.001