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 88,082.9090.160
ropp4 20,725.3963.939
banks3 15,544.0427.890
noose2 10,362.6927.721
haad2 10,362.6924.023
yowes2 10,362.6920.868
girnin2 10,362.6920.357
dat3 15,544.0418.317
idder2 10,362.6916.673
especially2 10,362.6916.311
hingin2 10,362.6914.051
used2 10,362.6912.161
whin2 10,362.6912.043
dey2 10,362.6910.326
fae4 20,725.399.343
mind2 10,362.696.925
get2 10,362.694.851
if2 10,362.694.321
you2 10,362.693.742
as3 15,544.041.966
up2 10,362.691.455
wi3 15,544.041.290
a8 41,450.780.880
i2 10,362.690.555
wis3 15,544.040.502
at2 10,362.690.397
in4 20,725.390.299
o5 25,906.740.242
tae5 25,906.740.168
it2 10,362.690.033
an5 25,906.740.000