A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Reid, Adeline

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 406
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 214
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.897
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, an, o, tae, it, duff, up, wi, for,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Clootie Duff
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (406 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
duff6 14,778.3372.245
cloot5 12,315.2748.736
dumplin4 9,852.2246.813
clootie3 7,389.1632.131
spices2 4,926.1125.874
pot3 7,389.1624.986
magic3 7,389.1623.778
special3 7,389.1622.245
lat4 9,852.2222.218
nott2 4,926.1117.497
passion2 4,926.1116.608
doot3 7,389.1616.592
hett2 4,926.1116.229
flooer2 4,926.1115.669
deen2 4,926.1113.858
aathin2 4,926.1113.306
a26 64,039.4112.964
watter3 7,389.1612.757
het2 4,926.1112.304
gweed2 4,926.1110.587
naethin2 4,926.118.533
enough2 4,926.118.374
up6 14,778.337.359
comes2 4,926.117.028
nae5 12,315.277.002
mony2 4,926.115.528
jist3 7,389.164.913
fae4 9,852.224.393
made2 4,926.114.317
for6 14,778.334.214
muckle2 4,926.113.658
doon3 7,389.163.139
weel2 4,926.112.753
there3 7,389.162.418
wi6 14,778.332.295
aye2 4,926.112.141
an15 36,945.811.939
can2 4,926.111.927
the30 73,891.631.680
or3 7,389.161.585
aa2 4,926.111.425
makken2 4,926.11nan
her4 9,852.221.400
wis2 4,926.111.355
it7 17,241.380.888
oot3 7,389.160.798
on4 9,852.220.777
is4 9,852.220.762
o10 24,630.540.317
this2 4,926.110.120
as2 4,926.110.098
we2 4,926.110.090
i2 4,926.110.075
tae8 19,704.430.056
in6 14,778.330.017
ye2 4,926.110.017
that4 9,852.220.000