A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Aitchison, Craig

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 99
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 90
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.1
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, watter, sea, an, in, tae, mairch, browden, flindrikin, door,

List of texts in corpus

nobody remembers the birdman - Fishin the Mairch
Association for Scottish Literature (2022-07-29 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (99 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
watter3 30,303.0321.075
mairch2 20,202.0218.198
sea2 20,202.0214.508
the3 30,303.031.690
in2 20,202.020.126
an2 20,202.020.115
tae2 20,202.020.007