A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mackie, Caroline

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 323
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 164
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.97
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - ah, m, the, it, noo, an, a, bit, be, aa,

List of texts in corpus

Change o Life
Facebook (2022-05-30) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as social (323 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
ah26 80,495.3688.906
m12 37,151.7058.436
mah5 15,479.8844.748
rules4 12,383.9035.613
noo8 24,767.8028.933
hoo4 12,383.9022.518
niver4 12,383.9021.198
mibbes2 6,191.9518.941
shid2 6,191.9518.578
aa6 18,575.8516.992
fir4 12,383.9016.552
daein3 9,287.9315.862
ve4 12,383.9014.544
change2 6,191.9514.269
bit6 18,575.8513.501
follaein2 6,191.9513.481
true2 6,191.9511.715
long2 6,191.9511.077
jist4 12,383.9010.076
take2 6,191.959.846
no5 15,479.889.468
hiv2 6,191.957.367
let2 6,191.957.256
look2 6,191.957.029
be6 18,575.856.981
better2 6,191.956.431
life2 6,191.955.727
been3 9,287.934.920
mair3 9,287.934.430
the11 34,055.734.015
ll2 6,191.953.536
it8 24,767.803.516
dae2 6,191.953.362
ken2 6,191.953.198
us2 6,191.953.174
if2 6,191.952.595
sae2 6,191.952.531
see2 6,191.952.451
in2 6,191.952.400
d2 6,191.952.295
they3 9,287.931.765
we3 9,287.931.688
tae4 12,383.901.472
o4 12,383.901.244
there2 6,191.951.175
s4 12,383.900.839
a7 21,671.830.724
me2 6,191.950.661
wis2 6,191.950.582
is3 9,287.930.445
an7 21,671.830.186
ye2 6,191.950.037