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 37,634.4154.933
brig2 10,752.6914.736
through2 10,752.698.550
sic2 10,752.698.396
year2 10,752.696.621
weel2 10,752.695.376
the19 102,150.545.375
to2 10,752.695.160
twa2 10,752.694.843
a10 53,763.443.181
like2 10,752.692.640
in6 32,258.062.577
and3 16,129.031.811
his2 10,752.690.653
i2 10,752.690.609
as2 10,752.690.531
it2 10,752.690.016