A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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MacKinnon, Ann

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 556
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 324
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.716
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, tae, and, i, it, o, me, he, fur,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 70 - Five Poems
Lallans Magazine (2007-06 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (556 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
killt3 5,395.6826.191
naething4 7,194.2424.974
economically2 3,597.1222.517
feather2 3,597.1222.517
brent2 3,597.1220.624
active2 3,597.1217.610
flees2 3,597.1216.583
burds2 3,597.1216.583
village2 3,597.1212.881
and12 21,582.7311.660
cawed2 3,597.1211.480
me8 14,388.4911.338
fur7 12,589.9311.068
poem2 3,597.128.840
i10 17,985.618.814
i'm2 3,597.128.605
naebody2 3,597.127.548
nae6 10,791.377.200
bairn2 3,597.126.956
read2 3,597.126.695
goat2 3,597.126.342
hame3 5,395.686.293
watter2 3,597.125.812
taen2 3,597.125.482
a26 46,762.595.068
till2 3,597.124.895
need2 3,597.124.834
but6 10,791.374.533
wee4 7,194.244.218
had3 5,395.683.878
life2 3,597.123.815
his7 12,589.933.474
ony2 3,597.123.095
noo3 5,395.683.034
it's2 3,597.122.981
cam2 3,597.122.954
her6 10,791.372.646
the24 43,165.472.510
then2 3,597.122.125
ower3 5,395.681.783
couardie2 3,597.12nan
he8 14,388.491.760
are2 3,597.121.560
wis3 5,395.681.509
oan2 3,597.121.343
conshie2 3,597.12nan
wi2 3,597.121.378
aye2 3,597.121.315
they4 7,194.241.283
by2 3,597.121.103
fae3 5,395.681.077
in6 10,791.370.932
aboot3 5,395.680.892
intae2 3,597.120.876
ma4 7,194.240.832
it9 16,187.050.810
aa2 3,597.120.717
you2 3,597.120.709
on2 3,597.120.694
as2 3,597.120.666
or3 5,395.680.663
frae2 3,597.120.662
day2 3,597.120.621
o9 16,187.050.573
at5 8,992.810.520
tae14 25,179.860.361
hae2 3,597.120.325
aw2 3,597.120.285
no2 3,597.120.178
oot3 5,395.680.172
like2 3,597.120.172
him2 3,597.120.170
is4 7,194.240.090
that6 10,791.370.048
we2 3,597.120.019
up2 3,597.120.008
this2 3,597.120.007