A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Walterson, Vaila

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 288
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 167
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.725
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - an, da, wis, o, she, in, der, a, her, hed,

List of texts in corpus

Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Da nicht afore da Trowie Show
Shetland Times (2009-09-06) in Shetland (Lerwick) dialect (SHD), categorised as newspaper (288 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
whitrit4 13,888.8960.611
der6 20,833.3358.096
da12 41,666.6745.722
entered4 13,888.8945.607
affil2 6,944.4427.249
thomasina2 6,944.4426.065
aafil2 6,944.4423.262
kerry2 6,944.4420.486
hed4 13,888.8920.320
lovely2 6,944.4420.016
knowe2 6,944.4419.215
trowie2 6,944.4418.867
flooer2 6,944.4417.252
even4 13,888.8915.923
tatties2 6,944.4415.566
wine2 6,944.4415.566
wirkin2 6,944.4415.028
ivery2 6,944.4414.032
clock2 6,944.4413.750
show2 6,944.4412.547
wan3 10,416.6711.916
wir3 10,416.6711.790
an18 62,500.0011.502
fir3 10,416.6711.421
peerie2 6,944.4411.377
makin2 6,944.4411.162
she7 24,305.5610.759
wis10 34,722.2210.645
used2 6,944.4410.641
aa4 13,888.899.248
dey2 6,944.448.728
d3 10,416.675.914
her5 17,361.115.201
nicht2 6,944.445.187
wiz2 6,944.445.047
dae2 6,944.443.738
on4 13,888.892.090
o9 31,250.001.418
him2 6,944.441.384
in7 24,305.561.225
a6 20,833.330.804
oot2 6,944.440.430
at2 6,944.440.013