A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Hume, Caroline

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 110
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 82
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.341
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, o, the, and, wae, up, whit, simmer, an, on,

List of texts in corpus

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums
Orkney Voices (2021-11-17 ) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as poetry (110 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
wae3 27,272.7315.608
simmer2 18,181.8215.581
a9 81,818.187.282
and4 36,363.647.160
twa2 18,181.826.755
hid2 18,181.826.671
whit2 18,181.825.029
o6 54,545.454.339
up2 18,181.823.082
on2 18,181.821.694
the4 36,363.641.108
an2 18,181.820.271