A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McClure, Alan

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 108
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 82
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.317
Tagged as SWE (South West (Galloway)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, tae, ah, their, pass, by, me, were, sae,

List of texts in corpus

A poem
Twitter (2022-01-05) in Central (Galloway) dialect (SWE), categorised as poetry (108 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
pass2 18,518.5217.570
wan2 18,518.5210.199
were2 18,518.527.399
by2 18,518.526.307
sae2 18,518.526.262
them2 18,518.526.228
their2 18,518.525.962
ah3 27,777.784.555
me2 18,518.523.652
this2 18,518.523.163
they2 18,518.523.134
tae5 46,296.302.411
an5 46,296.301.543
o2 18,518.520.023
the6 55,555.560.014