A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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West, Barbara

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 109
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 83
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.313
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, tae, it, some, o, or, me, on, stories,

List of texts in corpus

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums
Orkney Voices (2021-11-17 ) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as poetry (109 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
stories2 18,348.6216.026
some3 27,522.9412.294
wae2 18,348.628.876
or3 27,522.947.600
and4 36,697.257.171
time2 18,348.625.723
it4 36,697.253.704
me2 18,348.623.620
up2 18,348.623.127
on2 18,348.621.732
tae4 36,697.251.007
o3 27,522.940.236
the6 55,045.870.020