Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mackie, Matthew

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 149
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 101
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.475
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, ma, juist, it, an, wee, guid, on, at, aa,

List of texts in corpus

Guid Mornin! Guid Nicht!
Tippermuir (2023-06-26 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as childrens (149 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
butter	2	13,422.82	20.362
juist	4	26,845.64	20.169
ginger	2	13,422.82	19.573
ah'll	2	13,422.82	18.914
breid	2	13,422.82	18.744
ma	6	40,268.46	16.079
cat	2	13,422.82	13.538
guid	3	20,134.23	12.157
mornin	2	13,422.82	10.054
wee	3	20,134.23	8.251
mak	2	13,422.82	7.684
it's	2	13,422.82	7.637
come	2	13,422.82	7.344
are	2	13,422.82	5.810
noo	2	13,422.82	4.970
time	2	13,422.82	4.612
aa	2	13,422.82	4.500
no	2	13,422.82	3.314
on	3	20,134.23	2.989
at	3	20,134.23	2.808
up	2	13,422.82	2.171
it	4	26,845.64	2.112
oot	2	13,422.82	1.905
a	2	13,422.82	1.646
ye	2	13,422.82	1.264
for	2	13,422.82	1.171
ah	2	13,422.82	1.020
the	6	40,268.46	0.977
o	2	13,422.82	0.427
an	4	26,845.64	0.013