A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Coutts, Pete

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 386
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 210
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.838
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, he, a, tae, his, in, was, calder, o,

List of texts in corpus

Belhelvie
bandcamp (2016-10-04) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (386 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
calder6 15,544.0485.902
and20 51,813.4747.882
rig4 10,362.6944.185
steam3 7,772.0229.914
engine3 7,772.0229.356
loon4 10,362.6925.999
was6 15,544.0422.462
pin2 5,181.3520.806
he13 33,678.7616.220
wheel2 5,181.3515.658
his10 25,906.7414.887
dyke2 5,181.3514.542
stopped2 5,181.3514.468
nearly2 5,181.3513.556
brig2 5,181.3511.921
far3 7,772.0210.979
er2 5,181.3510.920
roon3 7,772.0210.506
way2 5,181.358.498
belhelvie3 7,772.02nan
mak3 7,772.028.487
fae5 12,953.377.590
though2 5,181.357.264
road2 5,181.356.550
auld3 7,772.025.640
him4 10,362.694.981
noo3 7,772.024.687
aboot4 10,362.694.324
an5 12,953.372.927
they4 10,362.692.905
aff2 5,181.352.515
their2 5,181.351.783
day2 5,181.351.422
the28 72,538.861.346
up3 7,772.021.212
doon2 5,181.351.169
but3 7,772.021.139
that2 5,181.351.047
on4 10,362.690.933
bit2 5,181.350.791
there2 5,181.350.786
o6 15,544.040.529
tae10 25,906.740.353
this2 5,181.350.169
in7 18,134.720.156
a12 31,088.080.043
it5 12,953.370.041