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 28,985.5193.628
i12 57,971.0134.132
you7 33,816.4328.167
aye6 28,985.5124.622
my5 24,154.5923.947
gither2 9,661.8418.849
beyond2 9,661.8417.822
perfect2 9,661.8417.234
ken4 19,323.6714.407
love2 9,661.8413.201
er2 9,661.8412.931
times2 9,661.849.850
m3 14,492.759.463
wye2 9,661.848.562
far2 9,661.848.027
last2 9,661.847.978
life2 9,661.847.385
een2 9,661.846.698
the5 24,154.595.461
s5 24,154.594.943
get2 9,661.844.606
ye4 19,323.674.503
as4 19,323.673.760
wis5 24,154.592.973
in6 28,985.511.929
is3 14,492.751.695
o2 9,661.841.541
an8 38,647.341.193
we2 9,661.841.170
ma2 9,661.841.092
for2 9,661.840.500
a5 24,154.590.209