A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Peace, Courtney

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 198
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 133
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.489
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, me, in, an, hid, oan, oot, tae, a, i,

List of texts in corpus

The 'Guid' Life
Orkney Heritage Society (01-01-2010) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as poetry (198 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
me7 35,353.5420.778
hid4 20,202.0214.229
oan4 20,202.0214.020
ah'm2 10,101.0113.350
school2 10,101.0113.105
wark2 10,101.019.467
yin2 10,101.017.060
whaur2 10,101.016.906
still2 10,101.016.812
oot4 20,202.026.273
fur3 15,151.525.661
no3 15,151.525.582
doon2 10,101.013.036
fae2 10,101.012.276
yar2 10,101.01nan
in6 30,303.032.196
i3 15,151.521.982
at3 15,151.521.719
a3 15,151.521.686
the16 80,808.081.655
be2 10,101.010.784
o3 15,151.520.318
tae4 20,202.020.014
an5 25,252.530.000
wis2 10,101.010.000