Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Norquoy, Greer

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 1,916
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 995
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.926
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, an, o, and, in, tae, me, fur, on,

List of texts in corpus

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums
Orkney Voices (2021-11-17 ) in Orkney dialect, categorised as poetry (1,916 words)

Author word usage frequencies

Word	Count	Normalised per 100,000
the	110	5741.13
a	75	3914.41
an	49	2557.41
o	42	2192.07
and	37	1931.11
in	34	1774.53
tae	28	1461.38
me	23	1200.42
fur	17	887.27
on	15	782.88
i	14	730.69
up	13	678.5
sea	13	678.5
is	12	626.3
bit	11	574.11
wi	11	574.11
be	10	521.92
no	9	469.73
oot	9	469.73
aal	9	469.73
shae	8	417.54
that	8	417.54
doon	8	417.54
as	8	417.54
his	8	417.54
at	8	417.54
he	7	365.34
sheu	7	365.34
noo	7	365.34
wis	7	365.34
fae	7	365.34
weel	7	365.34
her	7	365.34
like	6	313.15
or	6	313.15
laevan	6	313.15
luv	6	313.15
jist	6	313.15
oan	6	313.15
mill	6	313.15
wae	6	313.15
shore	6	313.15
blue	6	313.15
ower	6	313.15
hid	5	260.96
wan	5	260.96
green	5	260.96
afore	5	260.96
bi	5	260.96
been	5	260.96
winter	4	208.77
roond	4	208.77
wheel	4	208.77
will	4	208.77
colour	4	208.77
wir	4	208.77
dance	4	208.77
peedie	4	208.77
thir	4	208.77
they	4	208.77
year	4	208.77
next	4	208.77
wans	4	208.77
more	4	208.77
this	4	208.77
bright	4	208.77
twa	4	208.77
white	4	208.77
dry	3	156.58
fields	3	156.58
week	3	156.58
aye	3	156.58
air	3	156.58
hur	3	156.58
awey	3	156.58
high	3	156.58
niver	3	156.58
sunshine	3	156.58
wind	3	156.58
by	3	156.58
tops	3	156.58
home	3	156.58
long	3	156.58
ither	3	156.58
gaan	3	156.58
time	3	156.58
their	3	156.58
haet	3	156.58
power	3	156.58
snow	3	156.58
gress	3	156.58
slowly	3	156.58
turnan	3	156.58
queek	3	156.58
ebb	3	156.58
right	3	156.58
three	3	156.58
big	3	156.58
see	3	156.58
herd	3	156.58
thiv	3	156.58
summer	3	156.58
hid's	3	156.58
snozack	3	156.58
flooer	3	156.58
sure	3	156.58
gentle	2	104.38
reek	2	104.38
jumpan	2	104.38
playan	2	104.38
socks	2	104.38
heid	2	104.38
aaf	2	104.38
sandals	2	104.38
bot	2	104.38
step	2	104.38
stones	2	104.38
each	2	104.38
cast	2	104.38
reel	2	104.38
dancers	2	104.38
water	2	104.38
looder	2	104.38
storm	2	104.38
held	2	104.38
palm	2	104.38
room	2	104.38
fither	2	104.38
doll's	2	104.38
day	2	104.38
mind	2	104.38
cross	2	104.38
museum	2	104.38
go	2	104.38
things	2	104.38
we	2	104.38
he's	2	104.38
hoose	2	104.38
so	2	104.38
feet	2	104.38
cot	2	104.38
kens	2	104.38
northside	2	104.38
say	2	104.38
hersel	2	104.38
ready	2	104.38
last	2	104.38
shae'll	2	104.38
some	2	104.38
usually	2	104.38
nivir	2	104.38
beuts	2	104.38
dressan	2	104.38
bairns	2	104.38
tuk	2	104.38
got	2	104.38
furro	2	104.38
watch	2	104.38
bide	2	104.38
memories	2	104.38
god	2	104.38
phones	2	104.38
yir	2	104.38
geed	2	104.38
new	2	104.38
class	2	104.38
gressy	2	104.38
paper	2	104.38
own	2	104.38
black	2	104.38
books	2	104.38
ootside	2	104.38
flew	2	104.38
within	2	104.38
red	2	104.38
met	2	104.38
brough	2	104.38
hills	2	104.38
then	2	104.38
platform	2	104.38
jimmy	2	104.38
frock	2	104.38
weekend	2	104.38
neck	2	104.38
thee	2	104.38
aar	2	104.38
miller	2	104.38
along	2	104.38
two	2	104.38
claes	2	104.38
rhythm	2	104.38
caals	2	104.38
runnan	2	104.38
road	2	104.38
sun	2	104.38
line	2	104.38
aer	2	104.38
puddles	2	104.38
back	2	104.38
above	2	104.38
wey	2	104.38
floor	2	104.38
past	2	104.38
half	2	104.38
fine	2	104.38
fly	2	104.38
grain	2	104.38
covered	2	104.38
tide	2	104.38
ithers	2	104.38
sign	2	104.38
while	2	104.38
till	2	104.38