A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Nicol, Paul

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 98
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 69
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.42
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - her, hauns, as, she, fan, aa, tae, wae, an, bit,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - Her Hauns
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (98 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
hauns6 61,224.4957.468
her9 91,836.7335.687
fan3 30,612.2421.605
as5 51,020.4112.658
she4 40,816.339.662
wae2 20,408.169.289
aa2 20,408.165.996
doon2 20,408.165.434
bit2 20,408.164.822
nae2 20,408.164.472
an2 20,408.160.105
tae2 20,408.160.005