A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Coutts, Pete

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 386
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 210
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.838
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, he, a, tae, his, in, was, calder, o,

List of texts in corpus

Belhelvie
bandcamp (2016-10-04) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (386 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
calder6 15,544.0485.896
and20 51,813.4748.149
rig4 10,362.6944.181
steam3 7,772.0229.911
engine3 7,772.0229.353
loon4 10,362.6925.748
was6 15,544.0422.017
pin2 5,181.3520.804
he13 33,678.7616.048
wheel2 5,181.3515.656
his10 25,906.7414.758
stopped2 5,181.3514.466
dyke2 5,181.3514.393
nearly2 5,181.3513.613
brig2 5,181.3511.919
far3 7,772.0210.803
er2 5,181.3510.582
roon3 7,772.0210.364
way2 5,181.358.636
belhelvie3 7,772.02nan
mak3 7,772.028.384
fae5 12,953.377.671
though2 5,181.357.317
road2 5,181.356.496
auld3 7,772.025.649
him4 10,362.694.953
noo3 7,772.024.715
aboot4 10,362.694.286
an5 12,953.373.024
they4 10,362.692.877
aff2 5,181.352.503
their2 5,181.351.766
day2 5,181.351.445
the28 72,538.861.322
up3 7,772.021.196
doon2 5,181.351.176
but3 7,772.021.166
that2 5,181.351.047
on4 10,362.690.917
there2 5,181.350.796
bit2 5,181.350.789
o6 15,544.040.539
tae10 25,906.740.341
this2 5,181.350.170
in7 18,134.720.155
it5 12,953.370.047
a12 31,088.080.047