Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Miller, Alison

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 1,988
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 819
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.427
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, o, tae, an, in, his, and, i, for,

List of texts in corpus

The Point o Tinsal
Dictionaries of the Scots Language (2021-11-30) in Orkney dialect, categorised as poetry (375 words)

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums
Orkney Voices (2021-11-17 ) in Orkney dialect, categorised as prose (846 words)
Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North
University of Edinburgh (2014 ) in Orkney dialect, categorised as poetry (767 words)

Author word usage frequencies

Word	Count	Normalised per 100,000
the	112	5633.8
a	65	3269.62
o	56	2816.9
tae	48	2414.49
an	44	2213.28
in	32	1609.66
his	29	1458.75
and	27	1358.15
i	26	1307.85
for	22	1106.64
that	22	1106.64
hid	21	1056.34
wae	20	1006.04
on	19	955.73
me	15	754.53
is	14	704.23
no	14	704.23
oot	13	653.92
wid	13	653.92
aal	13	653.92
he	13	653.92
fae	11	553.32
he'll	11	553.32
you	11	553.32
doon	11	553.32
orkney	10	503.02
or	10	503.02
yir	10	503.02
thir	10	503.02
like	10	503.02
as	9	452.72
wey	9	452.72
him	9	452.72
be	9	452.72
wirds	8	402.41
up	8	402.41
at	8	402.41
this	8	402.41
are	8	402.41
it	8	402.41
been	7	352.11
owld	7	352.11
wark	7	352.11
orcadian	7	352.11
weel	6	301.81
feyther	6	301.81
fokk	6	301.81
different	6	301.81
wir	6	301.81
wan	6	301.81
some	6	301.81
whit	6	301.81
what	6	301.81
they	6	301.81
hoo	6	301.81
wis	5	251.51
aboot	5	251.51
he's	5	251.51
voices	5	251.51
afore	5	251.51
to	5	251.51
spaek	5	251.51
david	5	251.51
dae	5	251.51
though	5	251.51
but	5	251.51
thowt	5	251.51
think	5	251.51
don't	5	251.51
write	5	251.51
ferly	4	201.21
ither	4	201.21
door	4	201.21
funny	4	201.21
too	4	201.21
intae	4	201.21
language	4	201.21
will	4	201.21
john	4	201.21
wird	4	201.21
got	4	201.21
collection	4	201.21
by	4	201.21
so	4	201.21
say	4	201.21
we	4	201.21
teen	3	150.91
fire	3	150.91
dark	3	150.91
tak	3	150.91
thee	3	150.91
hand	3	150.91
when	3	150.91
thing	3	150.91
them	3	150.91
vowels	3	150.91
wi	3	150.91
tinsal	3	150.91
spaell	3	150.91
says	3	150.91
hiv	3	150.91
haed	3	150.91
never	3	150.91
george	3	150.91
glims	3	150.91
meenit	3	150.91
see	3	150.91
efter	3	150.91
didna	3	150.91
mak	3	150.91
winter	3	150.91
i'm	3	150.91
chist	3	150.91
sometimes	3	150.91
right	3	150.91
there	3	150.91
twa	3	150.91
a'm	3	150.91
that's	3	150.91
weys	3	150.91
new	3	150.91
canna	3	150.91
hoose	3	150.91
through	3	150.91
well	3	150.91
go	3	150.91
taks	3	150.91
than	3	150.91
more	3	150.91
their	3	150.91
veerie-orums	3	150.91
heid	3	150.91
you'll	3	150.91
shae	3	150.91
can	3	150.91
whaar	3	150.91
brown	2	100.6
inside	2	100.6
haad	2	100.6
chield	2	100.6
own	2	100.6
hope	2	100.6
words	2	100.6
mackay	2	100.6
bonny	2	100.6
folk	2	100.6
get	2	100.6
had	2	100.6
three	2	100.6
noo	2	100.6
might	2	100.6
fine	2	100.6
hear	2	100.6
writer	2	100.6
closs	2	100.6
feyther's	2	100.6
piece	2	100.6
lukk	2	100.6
swords	2	100.6
pat	2	100.6
thinkan	2	100.6
ken	2	100.6
roond	2	100.6
snipe	2	100.6
set	2	100.6
tea	2	100.6
forbye	2	100.6
wrong	2	100.6
shurely	2	100.6
muckle	2	100.6
peedie	2	100.6
spaelleen	2	100.6
aiggs	2	100.6
gmb	2	100.6
plaece'	2	100.6
since	2	100.6
sometheen	2	100.6
then	2	100.6
clouston	2	100.6
very	2	100.6
tailoreen	2	100.6
gousters	2	100.6
great	2	100.6
vikeen	2	100.6
haes	2	100.6
group	2	100.6
writers	2	100.6
windered	2	100.6
fellowship	2	100.6
cam	2	100.6
light	2	100.6
gae	2	100.6
sheep	2	100.6
lad	2	100.6
yet	2	100.6
loons	2	100.6
beuy	2	100.6
soonds	2	100.6
same	2	100.6
here	2	100.6
aye	2	100.6
widna	2	100.6
aer	2	100.6
paet	2	100.6
roses	2	100.6
telt	2	100.6
s	2	100.6
gret	2	100.6
luk	2	100.6
dry	2	100.6
quarry	2	100.6
said	2	100.6
story	2	100.6
buddy	2	100.6
soond	2	100.6
sanday	2	100.6
fence	2	100.6
neebour	2	100.6
ebb	2	100.6
heard	2	100.6
ower	2	100.6
nah	2	100.6
faer	2	100.6
ll	2	100.6
eday	2	100.6
bulder	2	100.6
burst	2	100.6
sittan	2	100.6
hert	2	100.6
burden	2	100.6
kep	2	100.6
let	2	100.6
point	2	100.6
waether	2	100.6
fix	2	100.6
birth	2	100.6
fields	2	100.6
deep	2	100.6
rashy	2	100.6
day	2	100.6
yarn	2	100.6
mither	2	100.6