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Lamb, Gregor

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 431
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 181
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.381
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, i, me, car, in, we, a, he, wis,

List of texts in corpus

Lamb’s Tales
The Orkney Dictionary (2005) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as prose (431 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
car12 27,842.23101.855
peedie6 13,921.1157.423
fright3 6,960.5636.178
and17 39,443.1632.798
i16 37,122.9732.528
me12 27,842.2331.161
saet3 6,960.5630.198
drivan2 4,640.3725.624
thit5 11,600.9324.969
faither5 11,600.9324.423
shouted3 6,960.5624.225
very4 9,280.7422.654
said7 16,241.3021.935
hid7 16,241.3021.917
got6 13,921.1121.521
mither5 11,600.9321.337
wir5 11,600.9320.592
so6 13,921.1119.849
faan2 4,640.3719.123
drove2 4,640.3717.595
we9 20,881.6715.402
home2 4,640.3714.930
didna4 9,280.7414.103
back6 13,921.1112.809
shut2 4,640.3710.888
off2 4,640.3710.856
when4 9,280.7410.393
brither2 4,640.3710.344
couldna2 4,640.3710.261
long2 4,640.3710.125
sit2 4,640.379.675
aal2 4,640.379.675
yir2 4,640.379.128
roond2 4,640.378.478
bit5 11,600.937.318
git2 4,640.377.026
she7 16,241.306.640
road2 4,640.376.090
whit4 9,280.745.561
up5 11,600.934.384
did2 4,640.373.807
he8 18,561.483.617
been3 6,960.563.600
hoose2 4,640.373.454
doon3 6,960.562.903
ll2 4,640.372.695
were2 4,640.372.574
wis8 18,561.482.430
mervyn2 4,640.37nan
aboot3 6,960.561.661
in10 23,201.861.416
tae6 13,921.111.332
a9 20,881.671.170
o6 13,921.111.081
his4 9,280.740.801
oot3 6,960.560.654
no2 4,640.370.555
him2 4,640.370.519
that3 6,960.560.414
on2 4,640.370.181
the27 62,645.010.143
for2 4,640.370.086
this2 4,640.370.072
is3 6,960.560.042
s3 6,960.560.012