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 33,457.2585.963
yer14 52,044.6167.905
aat3 11,152.4224.967
fan4 14,869.8923.055
gan3 11,152.4221.275
stop3 11,152.4221.089
ye9 33,457.2517.959
disnae2 7,434.9411.597
believe2 7,434.9411.139
yersel2 7,434.9410.634
the6 22,304.838.175
fae4 14,869.896.942
nae4 14,869.896.803
life2 7,434.946.386
fin2 7,434.945.938
micht2 7,434.945.663
come2 7,434.945.171
bit3 11,152.424.212
be4 14,869.893.397
fowk2 7,434.943.250
aa2 7,434.942.570
ower2 7,434.942.026
hae2 7,434.941.898
fur2 7,434.941.613
like2 7,434.941.565
aboot2 7,434.941.277
in6 22,304.830.702
oot2 7,434.940.543
it2 7,434.940.513
ma2 7,434.940.470
an8 29,739.780.199
a9 33,457.250.157
is2 7,434.940.067
at2 7,434.940.043
o6 22,304.830.040
tae6 22,304.830.011