Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McCabe, Mary

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 360
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 233
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.545
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, a, in, on, wi, oot, aye, tae,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 73 - Tap Table
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (140 words)
Lallans 73 - Soond shift
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (220 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
daunerin	2	5,555.56	26.349
may	3	8,333.33	21.212
barra	2	5,555.56	20.418
helicopter	2	5,555.56	19.118
blae	2	5,555.56	18.902
coont	2	5,555.56	16.356
shift	2	5,555.56	14.073
chiel	2	5,555.56	11.730
the	37	102,777.78	10.745
yet	2	5,555.56	8.415
watter	2	5,555.56	7.420
an	18	50,000.00	6.911
mornin	2	5,555.56	6.680
has	2	5,555.56	6.529
through	2	5,555.56	6.042
aye	3	8,333.33	5.687
oot	5	13,888.89	5.005
whaur	2	5,555.56	4.728
day	3	8,333.33	4.135
in	11	30,555.56	4.114
wey	2	5,555.56	3.816
tae	3	8,333.33	3.807
o	13	36,111.11	3.527
ower	3	8,333.33	3.524
on	5	13,888.89	2.601
ae	2	5,555.56	2.049
wi	5	13,888.89	1.609
it	2	5,555.56	1.508
me	2	5,555.56	0.468
a	12	33,333.33	0.198
his	2	5,555.56	0.001
for	2	5,555.56	0.000