A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Brown, Moyra

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 233
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 171
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.363
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, a, on, through, room, in, wae, i, o,

List of texts in corpus

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums
Orkney Voices (2021-11-17 ) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as poetry (233 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
and13 55,793.9932.814
room4 17,167.3822.453
nights2 8,583.6922.161
through4 17,167.3820.660
palace2 8,583.6920.643
chapter2 8,583.6917.774
widden2 8,583.6917.386
wae3 12,875.5411.276
hoose2 8,583.695.645
on5 21,459.235.424
me3 12,875.543.745
an2 8,583.693.555
tae2 8,583.692.354
for3 12,875.541.607
i3 12,875.541.415
o3 12,875.540.789
a5 21,459.230.553
the16 68,669.530.440
his2 8,583.690.299
in4 17,167.380.037