A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Reid, Adeline

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 406
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 214
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.897
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, an, o, tae, it, duff, up, wi, for,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Clootie Duff
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (406 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
duff6 14,778.3372.220
cloot5 12,315.2749.277
dumplin4 9,852.2246.796
clootie3 7,389.1632.118
spices2 4,926.1125.865
pot3 7,389.1624.974
magic3 7,389.1623.765
special3 7,389.1622.233
lat4 9,852.2222.170
nott2 4,926.1117.488
doot3 7,389.1616.644
passion2 4,926.1116.600
hett2 4,926.1116.221
flooer2 4,926.1115.766
deen2 4,926.1113.785
a26 64,039.4113.038
aathin2 4,926.1112.969
watter3 7,389.1612.713
het2 4,926.1112.208
gweed2 4,926.1110.468
enough2 4,926.118.640
naethin2 4,926.118.460
up6 14,778.337.320
comes2 4,926.117.063
nae5 12,315.276.976
mony2 4,926.115.453
jist3 7,389.164.828
fae4 9,852.224.463
made2 4,926.114.338
for6 14,778.334.135
muckle2 4,926.113.626
doon3 7,389.163.151
weel2 4,926.112.750
there3 7,389.162.439
wi6 14,778.332.250
aye2 4,926.112.042
can2 4,926.111.942
an15 36,945.811.837
the30 73,891.631.656
or3 7,389.161.539
wis2 4,926.111.366
makken2 4,926.11nan
her4 9,852.221.361
aa2 4,926.111.350
it7 17,241.380.923
oot3 7,389.160.803
is4 9,852.220.759
on4 9,852.220.757
o10 24,630.540.304
this2 4,926.110.121
as2 4,926.110.104
we2 4,926.110.085
i2 4,926.110.066
tae8 19,704.430.061
in6 14,778.330.018
ye2 4,926.110.014
that4 9,852.220.000