A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Smith Reid, Adeline

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 116
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 90
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.289
Tagged as NNA (North Northern A (Black Isle)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, an, wiz, fin, wi, it, hid, we, oot,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2013-04-17) in Doric (Buckie) dialect (NNA), categorised as social (116 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
ganzies2 17,241.3830.900
wiz4 34,482.7622.467
fin3 25,862.0716.060
affa2 17,241.3810.836
hid2 17,241.386.518
wi3 25,862.073.238
we2 17,241.382.828
oot2 17,241.382.639
for2 17,241.381.805
i2 17,241.381.651
it3 25,862.071.461
the4 34,482.761.385
a5 43,103.450.681
an4 34,482.760.351