A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts
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Forkin, Ellen
Basic Stats
Total words by this author in corpus - 45
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 31
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.452
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, pebble, ower, icy, nivver, tell, wid, finfolk, you,
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Sea o Dunder
Orkney Heritage Society (01-01-2010) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as poetry
(45 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.
| Word | Count |
Normalised
per million |
Keyness |
|---|
| pebble | 2 |
44,444.44 | 32.651 |
| icy | 2 |
44,444.44 | 25.459 |
| o | 5 |
111,111.11 | 9.106 |
| ower | 2 |
44,444.44 | 8.250 |
| the | 8 |
177,777.78 | 7.816 |