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 13,888.8960.709
der6 20,833.3358.243
da12 41,666.6745.816
entered4 13,888.8945.705
affil2 6,944.4427.298
thomasina2 6,944.4426.114
aafil2 6,944.4423.312
kerry2 6,944.4420.535
hed4 13,888.8920.416
lovely2 6,944.4420.065
knowe2 6,944.4419.264
trowie2 6,944.4418.916
flooer2 6,944.4417.300
even4 13,888.8915.996
wine2 6,944.4415.688
tatties2 6,944.4415.615
wirkin2 6,944.4415.076
ivery2 6,944.4413.844
clock2 6,944.4413.798
show2 6,944.4412.401
wan3 10,416.6712.044
wir3 10,416.6711.803
fir3 10,416.6711.473
peerie2 6,944.4411.425
makin2 6,944.4411.210
an18 62,500.0011.162
she7 24,305.5610.986
wis10 34,722.2210.770
used2 6,944.4410.588
aa4 13,888.898.942
dey2 6,944.448.775
d3 10,416.675.902
her5 17,361.115.207
nicht2 6,944.445.162
wiz2 6,944.445.090
dae2 6,944.443.787
on4 13,888.892.046
him2 6,944.441.381
o9 31,250.001.379
in7 24,305.561.215
a6 20,833.330.817
oot2 6,944.440.435
at2 6,944.440.012