A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Atkinson, David

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 316
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 172
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.837
Tagged as BEL (Eastern Ulster (Belfast)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - an, tha, we, o, a, in, nae, ye, wi, that,

List of texts in corpus

Yarns 3 - Tha Giss Got Fat
Ulster-Scots Community Network (2024-08-22) in Ulster (Belfast) dialect (BEL), categorised as poetry (316 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
tha12 37,974.6857.068
wurnae4 12,658.2344.114
we11 34,810.1328.286
lake3 9,493.6728.082
an26 82,278.4825.749
begs2 6,329.1124.097
beck2 6,329.1124.097
afeart2 6,329.1123.476
nuts2 6,329.1120.422
whin3 9,493.6717.561
wile2 6,329.1116.612
lit2 6,329.1114.405
fat2 6,329.1114.347
makkit2 6,329.1114.234
was4 12,658.2313.009
our2 6,329.1111.760
money2 6,329.1111.237
yersel2 6,329.1110.034
hauf2 6,329.119.367
epples3 9,493.67nan
haed3 9,493.679.132
nae5 15,822.789.007
got3 9,493.678.542
thair3 9,493.678.509
dinnae2 6,329.117.552
fur4 12,658.236.353
sperklers2 6,329.11nan
ye5 15,822.784.229
metches2 6,329.11nan
bengal2 6,329.11nan
hoose2 6,329.114.500
but4 12,658.233.930
were2 6,329.113.539
giss2 6,329.11nan
oot4 12,658.233.510
us2 6,329.113.167
tae3 9,493.672.726
if2 6,329.112.710
wi5 15,822.782.244
yer2 6,329.112.199
as4 12,658.231.689
in8 25,316.461.635
aw2 6,329.111.446
that5 15,822.780.966
o9 28,481.010.853
a9 28,481.010.009
on2 6,329.110.001
taithe2 6,329.11nan
bonefire2 6,329.11nan
wud2 6,329.1111.237