A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Cara, Dillon, Ami and Travis

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 270
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 133
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.03
Tagged as DUN (Dundee) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, tae, they, it, a, and, bogle, cried, watter, was,

List of texts in corpus

Bogle Adventure
Scots Hoose (01-01-2017) in Doric dialect (DUN), categorised as weans (270 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
bogle8 29,629.6399.558
cried5 18,518.5233.046
they11 40,740.7432.353
watter5 18,518.5230.321
matthew3 11,111.1124.933
freya2 7,407.4122.238
bucket2 7,407.4120.739
fight2 7,407.4120.496
was5 18,518.5220.383
flew2 7,407.4116.889
magic2 7,407.4116.117
abody2 7,407.4116.117
plan2 7,407.4114.694
lane2 7,407.4114.045
loch2 7,407.4113.219
laddie2 7,407.4112.507
and8 29,629.6311.569
dug2 7,407.4110.101
way2 7,407.419.876
ben2 7,407.419.830
muckle3 11,111.119.803
jeemy2 7,407.41nan
lang3 11,111.118.968
came2 7,407.418.711
so3 11,111.118.675
n2 7,407.418.324
it9 33,333.337.166
wha2 7,407.416.665
nicht2 7,407.415.412
tae12 44,444.445.251
got2 7,407.414.834
snawflake2 7,407.41nan
wee3 11,111.115.173
but4 14,814.814.787
to2 7,407.413.782
had2 7,407.413.593
said2 7,407.413.523
o2 7,407.413.073
them2 7,407.413.051
on4 14,814.812.381
doon2 7,407.412.101
there2 7,407.411.622
bawdrin2 7,407.41nan
fae2 7,407.411.431
the20 74,074.071.146
he4 14,814.810.977
at3 11,111.110.771
up2 7,407.410.712
in3 11,111.110.391
a9 33,333.330.149
that3 11,111.110.042