A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McGibbon, Joe

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 243
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 172
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.413
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, o, ma, i, an, hame, mi, tae, no,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 74 - Draps o Sapie-Bubble
Lallans Magazine (2009-07) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (139 words)

Lallans 73 - Feyther Langshanks Blues
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (104 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
tuppence3 12,345.6838.012
bubbles3 12,345.6837.339
mi4 16,460.9136.007
coff2 8,230.4523.944
pipes2 8,230.4518.043
hame4 16,460.9116.574
drappit2 8,230.4516.317
ma7 28,806.5814.611
lest2 8,230.4514.035
i6 24,691.368.068
gied2 8,230.457.919
mither2 8,230.457.269
wur2 8,230.457.269
anither2 8,230.456.426
juist2 8,230.455.601
no3 12,345.684.572
nae3 12,345.684.215
oan2 8,230.453.756
wee2 8,230.452.504
the9 37,037.042.270
bit2 8,230.451.915
tae3 12,345.681.117
in2 8,230.451.031
o7 28,806.580.734
wi3 12,345.680.659
hip-jynt2 8,230.45nan
her2 8,230.450.388
an5 20,576.130.240
is2 8,230.450.153
a8 32,921.810.108
wis2 8,230.450.094