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 14,778.3372.393
cloot5 12,315.2749.421
dumplin4 9,852.2246.911
clootie3 7,389.1632.204
spices2 4,926.1125.923
pot3 7,389.1624.797
magic3 7,389.1623.742
special3 7,389.1622.318
lat4 9,852.2222.282
nott2 4,926.1117.546
doot3 7,389.1616.696
passion2 4,926.1116.657
hett2 4,926.1116.278
flooer2 4,926.1115.717
deen2 4,926.1113.842
aathin2 4,926.1113.026
a26 64,039.4112.893
watter3 7,389.1612.748
het2 4,926.1112.264
gweed2 4,926.1110.524
enough2 4,926.118.662
naethin2 4,926.118.344
up6 14,778.337.309
comes2 4,926.117.096
nae5 12,315.276.986
mony2 4,926.115.478
jist3 7,389.164.796
fae4 9,852.224.506
made2 4,926.114.332
for6 14,778.334.208
muckle2 4,926.113.666
doon3 7,389.163.141
weel2 4,926.112.686
there3 7,389.162.435
wi6 14,778.332.267
aye2 4,926.112.048
makken2 4,926.11nan
can2 4,926.111.952
an15 36,945.811.791
the30 73,891.631.772
or3 7,389.161.520
her4 9,852.221.403
wis2 4,926.111.318
aa2 4,926.111.316
it7 17,241.380.924
oot3 7,389.160.806
is4 9,852.220.761
on4 9,852.220.748
o10 24,630.540.296
this2 4,926.110.117
as2 4,926.110.104
we2 4,926.110.075
tae8 19,704.430.063
i2 4,926.110.061
in6 14,778.330.018
ye2 4,926.110.016
that4 9,852.220.000