A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Wilkie, Dave

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 207
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 119
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.739
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - i, an, you, loving, aye, in, my, a, the, s,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2022-01-26) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (207 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
loving6 28,985.5193.480
i12 57,971.0133.721
you7 33,816.4327.615
aye6 28,985.5124.996
my5 24,154.5923.818
gither2 9,661.8418.800
beyond2 9,661.8417.773
perfect2 9,661.8416.957
ken4 19,323.6714.456
er2 9,661.8413.180
love2 9,661.8412.988
times2 9,661.849.932
m3 14,492.759.192
wye2 9,661.848.573
far2 9,661.848.147
last2 9,661.847.973
life2 9,661.847.375
een2 9,661.846.716
the5 24,154.595.561
s5 24,154.594.802
get2 9,661.844.541
ye4 19,323.674.485
as4 19,323.673.792
wis5 24,154.592.922
in6 28,985.511.941
is3 14,492.751.697
o2 9,661.841.512
an8 38,647.341.279
we2 9,661.841.218
ma2 9,661.840.976
for2 9,661.840.501
a5 24,154.590.204