A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Petrie, Kimberley

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 269
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 166
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.62
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - yer, ye, a, ye'll, an, the, tae, in, o, nae,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Letter Tae Ma Younger Sel
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as prose (269 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
ye'll9 33,457.2585.934
yer14 52,044.6167.919
aat3 11,152.4224.957
fan4 14,869.8923.042
gan3 11,152.4221.265
stop3 11,152.4221.079
ye9 33,457.2518.000
disnae2 7,434.9411.615
believe2 7,434.9411.133
yersel2 7,434.9410.628
the6 22,304.838.170
fae4 14,869.896.954
nae4 14,869.896.803
life2 7,434.946.380
fin2 7,434.945.932
micht2 7,434.945.657
come2 7,434.945.166
bit3 11,152.424.207
be4 14,869.893.398
fowk2 7,434.943.245
aa2 7,434.942.565
ower2 7,434.942.021
hae2 7,434.941.894
fur2 7,434.941.619
like2 7,434.941.563
aboot2 7,434.941.277
in6 22,304.830.699
oot2 7,434.940.544
it2 7,434.940.512
ma2 7,434.940.469
an8 29,739.780.197
a9 33,457.250.157
is2 7,434.940.066
at2 7,434.940.043
o6 22,304.830.039
tae6 22,304.830.011