A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Peace, Courtney

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 198
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 133
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.489
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, me, in, an, hid, oan, oot, tae, a, i,

List of texts in corpus

The 'Guid' Life
Orkney Heritage Society (01-01-2010) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as poetry (198 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
me7 35,353.5421.227
oan4 20,202.0214.215
hid4 20,202.0214.147
ah'm2 10,101.0113.348
school2 10,101.0113.076
wark2 10,101.019.516
yin2 10,101.017.048
whaur2 10,101.016.980
still2 10,101.016.801
oot4 20,202.026.280
fur3 15,151.525.739
no3 15,151.525.623
doon2 10,101.013.046
fae2 10,101.012.306
yar2 10,101.01nan
in6 30,303.032.193
i3 15,151.522.030
at3 15,151.521.698
a3 15,151.521.670
the16 80,808.081.636
be2 10,101.010.782
o3 15,151.520.323
tae4 20,202.020.015
an5 25,252.530.001
wis2 10,101.010.000