A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

. .Previous author - Next author
- dialect comparison - fine grain dialect comparison - Venn diagrams - punctuation analysis - chronology -

Christie, Hilary

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 408
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 215
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.898
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, an, i, o, in, at, growin, but, growe,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 78 - Ma Freens in Chains
Lallans Magazine (2011-07-01 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (408 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
growes5 12,254.9062.219
growin6 14,705.8852.306
growe5 12,254.9047.632
chains3 7,352.9436.513
chink3 7,352.9435.641
freen3 7,352.9425.659
i13 31,862.7522.745
cell2 4,901.9621.862
sin4 9,803.9220.115
miracle2 4,901.9619.088
wire2 4,901.9618.846
there's3 7,352.9418.513
lift3 7,352.9417.124
seekin2 4,901.9616.857
skewer4 9,803.92nan
saltire2 4,901.9616.717
freens2 4,901.9614.249
licht3 7,352.9413.647
oh3 7,352.9413.572
howp2 4,901.9613.224
aneth2 4,901.9612.848
man4 9,803.9211.019
sky2 4,901.9610.263
hert2 4,901.968.036
see4 9,803.927.818
body2 4,901.967.293
but6 14,705.887.107
aa4 9,803.926.867
lang3 7,352.946.745
dinna2 4,901.965.857
mony2 4,901.965.505
tae3 7,352.945.128
at7 17,156.865.067
sae3 7,352.944.579
their3 7,352.944.196
ma5 12,254.903.861
fit2 4,901.963.078
an16 39,215.692.716
are2 4,901.962.422
oot4 9,803.922.214
o13 31,862.752.213
the31 75,980.392.153
aye2 4,901.962.137
oor2 4,901.962.101
ay2 4,901.962.011
a17 41,666.671.947
be4 9,803.921.449
wee2 4,901.961.116
it3 7,352.940.808
wi2 4,901.960.407
in8 19,607.840.398
or2 4,901.960.300
for3 7,352.940.201
on2 4,901.960.111
they2 4,901.960.107
is3 7,352.940.088
his2 4,901.960.047