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Lamb, Gregor

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 431
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 181
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.381
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, i, me, car, in, we, a, he, wis,

List of texts in corpus

Lamb’s Tales
The Orkney Dictionary (2005) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as prose (431 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
car12 27,842.23102.199
peedie6 13,921.1157.596
fright3 6,960.5636.264
and17 39,443.1633.019
i16 37,122.9732.719
me12 27,842.2331.090
saet3 6,960.5630.284
drivan2 4,640.3725.682
thit5 11,600.9325.108
faither5 11,600.9324.443
shouted3 6,960.5624.186
very4 9,280.7422.658
hid7 16,241.3022.102
said7 16,241.3021.976
mither5 11,600.9321.372
got6 13,921.1121.346
wir5 11,600.9320.713
so6 13,921.1119.959
faan2 4,640.3719.180
drove2 4,640.3717.652
we9 20,881.6715.205
home2 4,640.3714.988
didna4 9,280.7414.211
back6 13,921.1112.918
shut2 4,640.3710.912
off2 4,640.3710.912
when4 9,280.7410.456
brither2 4,640.3710.372
couldna2 4,640.3710.317
long2 4,640.3710.155
sit2 4,640.379.615
aal2 4,640.379.615
yir2 4,640.379.103
roond2 4,640.378.516
bit5 11,600.937.340
git2 4,640.377.002
she7 16,241.306.736
road2 4,640.376.074
whit4 9,280.745.619
up5 11,600.934.376
did2 4,640.373.818
been3 6,960.563.641
he8 18,561.483.621
hoose2 4,640.373.455
doon3 6,960.562.893
ll2 4,640.372.689
were2 4,640.372.560
wis8 18,561.482.513
mervyn2 4,640.37nan
aboot3 6,960.561.661
in10 23,201.861.411
tae6 13,921.111.339
a9 20,881.671.208
o6 13,921.111.095
his4 9,280.740.803
oot3 6,960.560.658
no2 4,640.370.567
him2 4,640.370.524
that3 6,960.560.419
on2 4,640.370.185
the27 62,645.010.178
for2 4,640.370.078
this2 4,640.370.069
is3 6,960.560.043
s3 6,960.560.012