A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Christie, Hilary

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 408
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 215
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.898
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, an, i, o, in, at, growin, but, growe,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 78 - Ma Freens in Chains
Lallans Magazine (2011-07-01 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (408 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
growes5 12,254.9062.236
growin6 14,705.8852.325
growe5 12,254.9047.648
chains3 7,352.9436.523
chink3 7,352.9435.651
freen3 7,352.9425.669
i13 31,862.7522.772
cell2 4,901.9621.868
sin4 9,803.9220.103
miracle2 4,901.9619.094
wire2 4,901.9618.852
there's3 7,352.9418.522
lift3 7,352.9417.134
seekin2 4,901.9616.863
skewer4 9,803.92nan
saltire2 4,901.9616.724
freens2 4,901.9614.256
licht3 7,352.9413.657
oh3 7,352.9413.543
howp2 4,901.9613.230
aneth2 4,901.9612.854
man4 9,803.9210.976
sky2 4,901.9610.270
hert2 4,901.968.042
see4 9,803.927.821
body2 4,901.967.299
but6 14,705.887.117
aa4 9,803.926.877
lang3 7,352.946.753
dinna2 4,901.965.863
mony2 4,901.965.511
tae3 7,352.945.126
at7 17,156.865.064
sae3 7,352.944.587
their3 7,352.944.196
ma5 12,254.903.864
fit2 4,901.963.083
an16 39,215.692.725
are2 4,901.962.427
o13 31,862.752.228
oot4 9,803.922.211
the31 75,980.392.149
aye2 4,901.962.127
oor2 4,901.962.104
ay2 4,901.962.016
a17 41,666.671.948
be4 9,803.921.448
wee2 4,901.961.114
it3 7,352.940.810
wi2 4,901.960.406
in8 19,607.840.400
or2 4,901.960.301
for3 7,352.940.203
on2 4,901.960.109
they2 4,901.960.104
is3 7,352.940.089
his2 4,901.960.047