A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Coutts, Pete

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 386
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 210
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.838
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, he, a, tae, his, in, was, calder, o,

List of texts in corpus

Belhelvie
bandcamp (2016-10-04) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (386 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
calder6 15,544.0486.069
and20 51,813.4748.421
rig4 10,362.6943.810
steam3 7,772.0229.712
engine3 7,772.0229.439
loon4 10,362.6925.861
was6 15,544.0421.831
pin2 5,181.3520.861
he13 33,678.7616.056
wheel2 5,181.3515.713
his10 25,906.7414.767
stopped2 5,181.3514.523
dyke2 5,181.3514.379
nearly2 5,181.3513.553
brig2 5,181.3511.975
far3 7,772.0210.810
er2 5,181.3510.480
roon3 7,772.0210.299
way2 5,181.358.551
belhelvie3 7,772.02nan
mak3 7,772.028.377
fae5 12,953.377.730
though2 5,181.357.349
road2 5,181.356.480
auld3 7,772.025.695
him4 10,362.694.970
noo3 7,772.024.655
aboot4 10,362.694.286
an5 12,953.373.074
they4 10,362.692.863
aff2 5,181.352.505
their2 5,181.351.778
day2 5,181.351.457
the28 72,538.861.423
up3 7,772.021.193
doon2 5,181.351.171
but3 7,772.021.165
that2 5,181.351.054
on4 10,362.690.906
bit2 5,181.350.795
there2 5,181.350.793
o6 15,544.040.548
tae10 25,906.740.337
this2 5,181.350.166
in7 18,134.720.153
it5 12,953.370.047
a12 31,088.080.040