A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Nicol, Paul

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 98
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 69
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.42
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - her, hauns, as, she, fan, aa, tae, wae, an, bit,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - Her Hauns
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (98 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
hauns6 61,224.4958.195
her9 91,836.7335.535
fan3 30,612.2421.371
as5 51,020.4112.584
she4 40,816.339.741
wae2 20,408.169.272
aa2 20,408.165.892
doon2 20,408.165.445
bit2 20,408.164.817
nae2 20,408.164.460
an2 20,408.160.115
tae2 20,408.160.005