A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Thain, Gianna

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 197
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 139
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.417
Tagged as MNA (Mid Northern A) dialect.
Top ten most common words - ih, tae, the, o, wi, sea, left, fae, lang, intae,

List of texts in corpus

Far Shaddas Lurk
Scots Hoose (2020) in Doric (Buckie) dialect (MNA), categorised as prose (197 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
ih12 60,913.71173.231
dust3 15,228.4332.203
cities2 10,152.2823.154
ivry2 10,152.2821.111
becomes2 10,152.2820.730
bane2 10,152.2820.382
sea3 15,228.4320.142
ocean2 10,152.2819.767
death2 10,152.2815.636
left3 15,228.4314.479
deid2 10,152.2811.219
lang3 15,228.4310.724
fan2 10,152.2810.059
how2 10,152.289.259
far2 10,152.288.330
intae3 15,228.437.831
fae3 15,228.435.338
afore2 10,152.285.144
are2 10,152.284.809
some2 10,152.284.523
a2 10,152.283.377
the6 30,456.853.323
wi4 20,304.572.992
her2 10,152.280.757
tae6 30,456.850.685
ah2 10,152.280.475
on2 10,152.280.433
and2 10,152.280.306
o5 25,380.710.210