A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Kerr, Oliwia, Sarah and Amber

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 292
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 139
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.101
Tagged as DUN (Dundee) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, her, and, it, she, to, fiona, ring, so,

List of texts in corpus

Fiona and the Ring
Scots Hoose (01-01-2017) in Doric dialect (DUN), categorised as weans (292 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
fiona7 23,972.6083.812
ring6 20,547.9559.529
jaggy4 13,698.6353.141
johnny5 17,123.2949.413
to9 30,821.9240.644
her13 44,520.5533.693
rubbed3 10,273.9733.682
wished3 10,273.9730.294
next4 13,698.6324.591
so6 20,547.9524.281
and12 41,095.8923.864
she10 34,246.5821.096
happily2 6,849.3220.689
burn3 10,273.9719.254
evil2 6,849.3218.058
lived2 6,849.3215.890
college2 6,849.3215.440
wanted2 6,849.3213.306
when4 13,698.6312.938
wee5 17,123.2912.314
mither3 10,273.9712.169
stane2 6,849.3212.082
ever2 6,849.3210.147
dug2 6,849.329.802
lang3 10,273.978.548
it10 34,246.588.312
wisna2 6,849.327.795
went2 6,849.326.798
day3 10,273.975.141
was2 6,849.324.498
for5 17,123.294.479
ane2 6,849.324.435
then2 6,849.324.156
fae3 10,273.973.482
had2 6,849.323.342
a14 47,945.213.010
tae3 10,273.972.128
as4 13,698.632.056
o3 10,273.971.871
the13 44,520.551.085
in3 10,273.970.608
wi2 6,849.320.014
that3 10,273.970.005
wis3 10,273.970.001