A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mainland, Marlene

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 107
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 75
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.427
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, granny, tae, in, play, barn, kettleens, and, be, haar,

List of texts in corpus

High Coo
Orkney Heritage Society (01-01-2010) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as poetry (14 words)

Home Truths
Orkney Heritage Society (01-01-2010) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as poetry (93 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
granny4 37,383.1837.090
barn2 18,691.5922.221
geen2 18,691.5921.814
haar2 18,691.5920.698
whar2 18,691.5916.692
thoo2 18,691.5914.594
good2 18,691.5914.312
run2 18,691.5913.803
kettleens2 18,691.59nan
play2 18,691.5913.889
wae2 18,691.598.957
fae2 18,691.594.250
oot2 18,691.592.889
be2 18,691.592.345
the10 93,457.942.068
and2 18,691.591.557
in3 28,037.380.876
a2 18,691.590.484
tae3 28,037.380.206
whar's2 18,691.59nan