A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Smith Reid, Adeline

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 116
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 90
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.289
Tagged as NNA (North Northern A (Black Isle)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, an, wiz, fin, wi, it, hid, we, oot,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2013-04-17) in Doric (Buckie) dialect (NNA), categorised as social (116 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
ganzies2 17,241.3830.907
wiz4 34,482.7622.284
fin3 25,862.0716.070
affa2 17,241.3810.842
hid2 17,241.386.485
wi3 25,862.073.240
we2 17,241.382.829
oot2 17,241.382.637
for2 17,241.381.810
i2 17,241.381.655
it3 25,862.071.459
the4 34,482.761.387
a5 43,103.450.682
an4 34,482.760.352