A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Wilkie, Dave

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 207
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 119
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.739
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - i, an, you, loving, aye, in, my, a, the, s,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2022-01-26) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (207 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
loving6 28,985.5193.461
i12 57,971.0133.693
you7 33,816.4327.620
aye6 28,985.5125.040
my5 24,154.5923.802
gither2 9,661.8418.913
beyond2 9,661.8417.766
perfect2 9,661.8416.951
ken4 19,323.6714.444
er2 9,661.8413.376
love2 9,661.8412.982
times2 9,661.849.926
m3 14,492.759.191
wye2 9,661.848.567
far2 9,661.848.141
last2 9,661.847.981
life2 9,661.847.369
een2 9,661.846.710
the5 24,154.595.557
s5 24,154.594.814
get2 9,661.844.540
ye4 19,323.674.500
as4 19,323.673.803
wis5 24,154.592.912
in6 28,985.511.937
is3 14,492.751.693
o2 9,661.841.520
an8 38,647.341.275
we2 9,661.841.217
ma2 9,661.840.975
for2 9,661.840.499
a5 24,154.590.204