A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Bruce, Meg

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 179
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 105
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.705
Tagged as MNA (Mid Northern A) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, bit, it, in, o, its, am, so, ah, thit,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2013-10-25) in Doric (Buckie) dialect (MNA), categorised as social (179 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
contraption3 16,759.7843.747
bit8 44,692.7430.957
am4 22,346.3727.518
a19 106,145.2522.535
type2 11,173.1819.261
es2 11,173.1817.920
thit3 16,759.7817.165
its4 22,346.3716.131
fecht2 11,173.1814.394
doric2 11,173.1813.612
it's3 16,759.7812.736
sair2 11,173.1811.026
so3 16,759.7810.965
dinna2 11,173.188.970
mak2 11,173.186.994
fit2 11,173.185.919
ain2 11,173.185.865
richt2 11,173.185.151
it6 33,519.554.821
jist2 11,173.184.679
intae2 11,173.184.136
ye3 16,759.782.769
ah3 16,759.782.342
in5 27,932.961.443
ma2 11,173.181.313
tae2 11,173.181.079
an3 16,759.780.609
is2 11,173.180.589
and2 11,173.180.450
o5 27,932.960.433