A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Smith, Derek

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 186
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 134
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.388
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, o', in, and, to, sic, i, twa, his,

List of texts in corpus

Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith
northwordsnow.co.uk (2022-06-01 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (186 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
o'7 37,634.4155.299
brig2 10,752.6914.744
through2 10,752.698.513
sic2 10,752.698.418
year2 10,752.696.620
the19 102,150.545.405
weel2 10,752.695.380
to2 10,752.695.069
twa2 10,752.694.868
a10 53,763.443.157
like2 10,752.692.608
in6 32,258.062.584
and3 16,129.031.789
his2 10,752.690.666
i2 10,752.690.587
as2 10,752.690.542
it2 10,752.690.019