A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Russell, Morag

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 220
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 121
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.818
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, o, in, and, wis, who, that, i, hairst,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2021 August 20 at 10:08 AM) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as social (98 words)


Facebook (2021 August 19 at 11:04 AM) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as social (122 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
fokk4 18,181.8243.423
hairst4 18,181.8239.603
who5 22,727.2734.600
reevlers2 9,090.9128.331
whar3 13,636.3623.180
sid2 9,090.9123.066
words3 13,636.3617.715
wid4 18,181.8215.105
more2 9,090.9114.430
bides2 9,090.9114.075
likely2 9,090.9113.386
couple2 9,090.9111.637
very2 9,090.9111.218
backend4 18,181.82nan
hiv2 9,090.918.829
while2 9,090.918.398
aboot4 18,181.827.868
wan2 9,090.917.425
wir2 9,090.917.342
day3 13,636.366.569
english2 9,090.916.388
hoose2 9,090.915.867
language2 9,090.915.859
say2 9,090.915.727
and5 22,727.275.240
ither2 9,090.914.902
m2 9,090.914.458
interestan2 9,090.91nan
hid2 9,090.914.193
i4 18,181.823.596
in7 31,818.182.915
that5 22,727.272.723
wis5 22,727.272.570
bit2 9,090.912.198
or2 9,090.911.561
is3 13,636.361.489
o7 31,818.181.193
a9 40,909.090.932
tae3 13,636.360.724
ah2 9,090.910.306
on2 9,090.910.275
the13 59,090.910.003