A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

. .Previous author - Next author
- fine grain dialect comparison - Venn diagrams - punctuation analysis - chronology -

Wilde, Jacqueline Jay

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 156
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 96
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.625
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, me, an, tae, yin, you, wi, ma, auld, ye,

List of texts in corpus

Valentine Tango
Scots Language Centre (2021) in Central dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (156 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
tango3 19,230.7744.589
yin5 32,051.2828.868
valentine2 12,820.5125.252
me7 44,871.7923.914
haudin3 19,230.7723.783
auld5 32,051.2822.405
you5 32,051.2819.205
hey2 12,820.5118.165
dance2 12,820.5116.626
ma5 32,051.2811.365
wi5 32,051.287.020
ye4 25,641.036.222
back2 12,820.513.982
wee2 12,820.513.921
no2 12,820.513.168
we2 12,820.511.952
oot2 12,820.511.780
a7 44,871.791.150
tae5 32,051.280.737
and2 12,820.510.697
an5 32,051.280.262
in2 12,820.510.082
mebbie3 19,230.77nan
am2 12,820.5111.546