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Lamb, Gregor

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 431
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 181
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.381
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, i, me, car, in, we, a, he, wis,

List of texts in corpus

Lamb’s Tales
The Orkney Dictionary (2005) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as prose (431 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
car12 27,842.23101.563
peedie6 13,921.1157.429
fright3 6,960.5636.181
and17 39,443.1632.582
i16 37,122.9732.171
me12 27,842.2330.410
saet3 6,960.5630.200
drivan2 4,640.3725.626
thit5 11,600.9325.025
shouted3 6,960.5624.484
faither5 11,600.9324.214
very4 9,280.7422.622
hid7 16,241.3022.059
said7 16,241.3022.005
mither5 11,600.9321.446
got6 13,921.1121.433
wir5 11,600.9320.677
so6 13,921.1119.855
faan2 4,640.3719.125
drove2 4,640.3717.420
we9 20,881.6715.498
home2 4,640.3714.580
didna4 9,280.7414.176
back6 13,921.1112.818
off2 4,640.3710.731
shut2 4,640.3710.639
couldna2 4,640.3710.403
brither2 4,640.3710.290
when4 9,280.7410.109
long2 4,640.379.971
aal2 4,640.379.871
sit2 4,640.379.654
yir2 4,640.379.130
roond2 4,640.378.217
bit5 11,600.937.327
git2 4,640.377.062
she7 16,241.306.532
road2 4,640.376.144
whit4 9,280.745.504
up5 11,600.934.420
did2 4,640.373.784
he8 18,561.483.693
been3 6,960.563.579
hoose2 4,640.373.521
doon3 6,960.562.890
ll2 4,640.372.639
were2 4,640.372.578
wis8 18,561.482.437
aboot3 6,960.561.684
mervyn2 4,640.37nan
in10 23,201.861.419
tae6 13,921.111.309
a9 20,881.671.190
o6 13,921.111.068
his4 9,280.740.826
oot3 6,960.560.651
no2 4,640.370.540
him2 4,640.370.527
that3 6,960.560.414
on2 4,640.370.174
the27 62,645.010.151
for2 4,640.370.078
this2 4,640.370.071
is3 6,960.560.042
s3 6,960.560.021