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 28,985.5193.455
i12 57,971.0133.979
you7 33,816.4328.032
aye6 28,985.5124.599
my5 24,154.5923.884
gither2 9,661.8418.792
beyond2 9,661.8417.764
perfect2 9,661.8417.177
ken4 19,323.6714.378
love2 9,661.8413.200
er2 9,661.8413.034
times2 9,661.849.924
m3 14,492.759.493
wye2 9,661.848.507
far2 9,661.848.022
last2 9,661.847.972
life2 9,661.847.385
een2 9,661.846.669
the5 24,154.595.588
s5 24,154.594.944
get2 9,661.844.597
ye4 19,323.674.537
as4 19,323.673.757
wis5 24,154.592.907
in6 28,985.511.934
is3 14,492.751.693
o2 9,661.841.531
an8 38,647.341.220
we2 9,661.841.202
ma2 9,661.841.081
for2 9,661.840.484
a5 24,154.590.199