A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lochhead, Liz

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 380
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 216
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.759
Tagged as WCE (West Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, an, the, in, o, it, ma, s, or, i,

List of texts in corpus

Ashet
Dictionaries of the Scots Language (2021-11-30) in Central dialect (WCE), categorised as poetry (380 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
ashet3 7,894.7436.077
winterdykes2 5,263.1627.863
platter2 5,263.1624.953
nuthin2 5,263.1624.046
jam2 5,263.1617.145
sair3 7,894.7414.524
or7 18,421.0512.895
clock2 5,263.1612.653
ma8 21,052.6312.520
press2 5,263.1611.989
rid2 5,263.1610.788
ever2 5,263.169.126
black2 5,263.168.901
no5 13,157.898.132
huv2 5,263.168.063
heid3 7,894.747.295
haun2 5,263.166.740
how2 5,263.166.722
which2 5,263.166.467
a20 52,631.585.920
gey2 5,263.165.808
baith2 5,263.165.259
pie-dish3 7,894.74nan
but5 13,157.895.132
tell2 5,263.165.093
the13 34,210.534.658
i6 15,789.474.283
s7 18,421.054.258
could2 5,263.164.065
mair3 7,894.743.684
an16 42,105.263.613
wee3 7,894.743.570
in11 28,947.373.545
it9 23,684.213.536
than2 5,263.163.253
wid2 5,263.163.150
here2 5,263.163.108
ll2 5,263.163.013
for5 13,157.892.814
to2 5,263.162.692
aye2 5,263.162.335
is5 13,157.892.288
day2 5,263.161.463
that2 5,263.160.993
bit2 5,263.160.826
o10 26,315.790.579
be3 7,894.740.528
ye3 7,894.740.388
as3 7,894.740.186
oot2 5,263.160.093
on2 5,263.160.050
wi3 7,894.740.010
wis4 10,526.320.006