Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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MacKenzie, Douglas

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 248
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 166
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.494
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - and, ye, tae, the, a, frae, o, that, yer, for,

List of texts in corpus

Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch
Eemis Stane (2022-05-06 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (248 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
hawk	2	8,064.52	25.758
kyte	2	8,064.52	23.863
frae	6	24,193.55	19.572
and	10	40,322.58	19.539
ye	9	36,290.32	19.221
yer	5	20,161.29	15.173
true	2	8,064.52	12.698
windae	2	8,064.52	10.732
great	2	8,064.52	9.584
though	2	8,064.52	8.933
your	2	8,064.52	8.168
while	2	8,064.52	7.925
could	2	8,064.52	5.553
say	2	8,064.52	5.288
the	7	28,225.81	4.977
were	2	8,064.52	4.373
are	2	8,064.52	4.015
some	2	8,064.52	3.736
me	3	12,096.77	3.469
for	4	16,129.03	3.260
i	4	16,129.03	2.961
that	5	20,161.29	2.066
no	2	8,064.52	1.788
tae	8	32,258.06	1.213
in	2	8,064.52	1.106
this	2	8,064.52	0.889
be	2	8,064.52	0.384
her	2	8,064.52	0.358
she	2	8,064.52	0.345
a	6	24,193.55	0.241
o	6	24,193.55	0.156
is	2	8,064.52	0.133
wi	2	8,064.52	0.013