A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Brown, Moyra

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 233
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 171
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.363
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, a, on, through, room, in, wae, i, o,

List of texts in corpus

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums
Orkney Voices (2021-11-17 ) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as poetry (233 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
and13 55,793.9932.986
nights2 8,583.6922.807
room4 17,167.3822.446
through4 17,167.3820.675
palace2 8,583.6920.620
chapter2 8,583.6917.751
widden2 8,583.6917.456
wae3 12,875.5411.244
hoose2 8,583.695.644
on5 21,459.235.432
me3 12,875.543.741
an2 8,583.693.571
tae2 8,583.692.356
for3 12,875.541.602
i3 12,875.541.425
o3 12,875.540.775
a5 21,459.230.558
the16 68,669.530.444
his2 8,583.690.295
in4 17,167.380.039