A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Petrie, Kimberley

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 269
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 166
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.62
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - yer, ye, a, ye'll, an, the, tae, in, o, nae,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Letter Tae Ma Younger Sel
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as prose (269 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
ye'll9 33,457.2585.925
yer14 52,044.6168.344
aat3 11,152.4224.954
fan4 14,869.8922.735
gan3 11,152.4221.122
stop3 11,152.4220.985
ye9 33,457.2518.096
disnae2 7,434.9411.422
believe2 7,434.9411.196
yersel2 7,434.9410.664
the6 22,304.838.211
fae4 14,869.897.022
nae4 14,869.896.780
life2 7,434.946.396
fin2 7,434.945.925
micht2 7,434.945.623
come2 7,434.945.168
bit3 11,152.424.201
be4 14,869.893.393
fowk2 7,434.943.211
aa2 7,434.942.479
ower2 7,434.942.007
hae2 7,434.941.887
fur2 7,434.941.660
like2 7,434.941.592
aboot2 7,434.941.262
in6 22,304.830.697
ma2 7,434.940.550
oot2 7,434.940.546
it2 7,434.940.495
an8 29,739.780.174
a9 33,457.250.163
is2 7,434.940.066
at2 7,434.940.039
o6 22,304.830.037
tae6 22,304.830.009