A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McClure, Alan

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 108
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 82
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.317
Tagged as SWE (South West (Galloway)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, tae, ah, their, pass, by, me, were, sae,

List of texts in corpus

A poem
Twitter (2022-01-05) in Central (Galloway) dialect (SWE), categorised as poetry (108 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
pass2 18,518.5217.532
wan2 18,518.5210.165
were2 18,518.527.402
by2 18,518.526.306
sae2 18,518.526.268
them2 18,518.526.218
their2 18,518.525.962
ah3 27,777.784.551
me2 18,518.523.653
this2 18,518.523.165
they2 18,518.523.124
tae5 46,296.302.412
an5 46,296.301.547
o2 18,518.520.023
the6 55,555.560.014