A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Smith, Derek

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 186
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 134
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.388
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, o', in, and, to, sic, i, twa, his,

List of texts in corpus

Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith
northwordsnow.co.uk (2022-06-01 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (186 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
o'7 37,634.4155.276
brig2 10,752.6914.738
through2 10,752.698.522
sic2 10,752.698.412
year2 10,752.696.614
the19 102,150.545.410
weel2 10,752.695.377
to2 10,752.695.063
twa2 10,752.694.867
a10 53,763.443.157
like2 10,752.692.606
in6 32,258.062.580
and3 16,129.031.784
his2 10,752.690.668
i2 10,752.690.585
as2 10,752.690.545
it2 10,752.690.019