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 (ORK), categorised as poetry (375 words)

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

Author word usage frequencies

WordCount Normalised
per million
the11256,338.03
a6532,696.18
o5628,169.01
tae4824,144.87
an4422,132.80
in3216,096.58
his2914,587.53
and2713,581.49
i2613,078.47
for2211,066.40
that2211,066.40
hid2110,563.38
wae2010,060.36
on199,557.34
me157,545.27
is147,042.25
no147,042.25
oot136,539.24
wid136,539.24
aal136,539.24
he136,539.24
fae115,533.20
he'll115,533.20
you115,533.20
doon115,533.20
orkney105,030.18
or105,030.18
yir105,030.18
thir105,030.18
like105,030.18
as94,527.16
wey94,527.16
him94,527.16
be94,527.16
wirds84,024.14
up84,024.14
at84,024.14
this84,024.14
are84,024.14
it84,024.14
been73,521.13
owld73,521.13
wark73,521.13
orcadian73,521.13
weel63,018.11
feyther63,018.11
fokk63,018.11
different63,018.11
wir63,018.11
wan63,018.11
some63,018.11
whit63,018.11
what63,018.11
they63,018.11
hoo63,018.11
wis52,515.09
aboot52,515.09
he's52,515.09
voices52,515.09
afore52,515.09
to52,515.09
spaek52,515.09
david52,515.09
dae52,515.09
though52,515.09
but52,515.09
thowt52,515.09
think52,515.09
don't52,515.09
write52,515.09
ferly42,012.07
ither42,012.07
door42,012.07
funny42,012.07
too42,012.07
intae42,012.07
language42,012.07
will42,012.07
john42,012.07
wird42,012.07
got42,012.07
collection42,012.07
by42,012.07
so42,012.07
say42,012.07
we42,012.07
teen31,509.05
fire31,509.05
dark31,509.05
tak31,509.05
thee31,509.05
hand31,509.05
when31,509.05
thing31,509.05
them31,509.05
vowels31,509.05
wi31,509.05
tinsal31,509.05
spaell31,509.05
says31,509.05
hiv31,509.05
haed31,509.05
never31,509.05
george31,509.05
glims31,509.05
meenit31,509.05
see31,509.05
efter31,509.05
didna31,509.05
mak31,509.05
winter31,509.05
i'm31,509.05
chist31,509.05
sometimes31,509.05
right31,509.05
there31,509.05
twa31,509.05
a'm31,509.05
that's31,509.05
weys31,509.05
new31,509.05
canna31,509.05
hoose31,509.05
through31,509.05
well31,509.05
go31,509.05
taks31,509.05
than31,509.05
more31,509.05
their31,509.05
veerie-orums31,509.05
heid31,509.05
you'll31,509.05
shae31,509.05
can31,509.05
whaar31,509.05
brown21,006.04
inside21,006.04
haad21,006.04
chield21,006.04
own21,006.04
hope21,006.04
words21,006.04
mackay21,006.04
bonny21,006.04
folk21,006.04
get21,006.04
had21,006.04
three21,006.04
noo21,006.04
might21,006.04
fine21,006.04
hear21,006.04
writer21,006.04
closs21,006.04
feyther's21,006.04
piece21,006.04
lukk21,006.04
swords21,006.04
pat21,006.04
thinkan21,006.04
ken21,006.04
roond21,006.04
snipe21,006.04
set21,006.04
tea21,006.04
forbye21,006.04
wrong21,006.04
shurely21,006.04
muckle21,006.04
peedie21,006.04
spaelleen21,006.04
aiggs21,006.04
gmb21,006.04
plaece'21,006.04
since21,006.04
sometheen21,006.04
then21,006.04
clouston21,006.04
very21,006.04
tailoreen21,006.04
gousters21,006.04
great21,006.04
vikeen21,006.04
haes21,006.04
group21,006.04
writers21,006.04
windered21,006.04
fellowship21,006.04
cam21,006.04
light21,006.04
gae21,006.04
sheep21,006.04
lad21,006.04
yet21,006.04
loons21,006.04
beuy21,006.04
soonds21,006.04
same21,006.04
here21,006.04
aye21,006.04
widna21,006.04
aer21,006.04
paet21,006.04
roses21,006.04
telt21,006.04
s21,006.04
gret21,006.04
luk21,006.04
dry21,006.04
quarry21,006.04
said21,006.04
story21,006.04
buddy21,006.04
soond21,006.04
sanday21,006.04
fence21,006.04
neebour21,006.04
ebb21,006.04
heard21,006.04
ower21,006.04
nah21,006.04
faer21,006.04
ll21,006.04
eday21,006.04
bulder21,006.04
burst21,006.04
sittan21,006.04
hert21,006.04
burden21,006.04
kep21,006.04
let21,006.04
point21,006.04
waether21,006.04
fix21,006.04
birth21,006.04
fields21,006.04
deep21,006.04
rashy21,006.04
day21,006.04
yarn21,006.04
mither21,006.04