A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Wilde, Jacqueline Jay

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 156
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 96
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.625
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, me, an, tae, yin, you, wi, ma, auld, ye,

List of texts in corpus

Valentine Tango
Scots Language Centre (2021) in Central dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (156 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
tango3 19,230.7744.579
yin5 32,051.2828.865
valentine2 12,820.5125.245
me7 44,871.7923.908
haudin3 19,230.7723.773
auld5 32,051.2822.404
you5 32,051.2819.209
hey2 12,820.5118.158
dance2 12,820.5116.620
ma5 32,051.2811.360
wi5 32,051.287.017
ye4 25,641.036.239
back2 12,820.513.989
wee2 12,820.513.924
no2 12,820.513.174
we2 12,820.511.951
oot2 12,820.511.782
a7 44,871.791.149
tae5 32,051.280.736
and2 12,820.510.694
an5 32,051.280.260
in2 12,820.510.083
mebbie3 19,230.77nan
am2 12,820.5111.539