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 33,457.2586.021
yer14 52,044.6167.993
aat3 11,152.4225.040
fan4 14,869.8922.825
stop3 11,152.4221.071
gan3 11,152.4220.763
ye9 33,457.2518.006
disnae2 7,434.9411.409
believe2 7,434.9411.252
yersel2 7,434.9410.626
the6 22,304.838.037
fae4 14,869.897.070
nae4 14,869.896.789
life2 7,434.946.396
fin2 7,434.945.947
micht2 7,434.945.642
come2 7,434.945.195
bit3 11,152.424.214
be4 14,869.893.405
fowk2 7,434.943.204
aa2 7,434.942.438
ower2 7,434.942.023
hae2 7,434.941.857
fur2 7,434.941.612
like2 7,434.941.610
aboot2 7,434.941.262
in6 22,304.830.694
ma2 7,434.940.558
oot2 7,434.940.549
it2 7,434.940.495
an8 29,739.780.163
a9 33,457.250.152
is2 7,434.940.066
at2 7,434.940.042
o6 22,304.830.035
tae6 22,304.830.008