A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McBeath, Lorraine

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 129
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 87
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.483
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - she, i, a, tae, and, the, she's, me, her, new,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - The New Quine at School
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (129 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
she's3 23,255.8129.474
gings2 15,503.8822.813
she7 54,263.5720.548
quine2 15,503.8815.873
gan2 15,503.8815.507
school2 15,503.8814.757
i6 46,511.6314.423
i'm2 15,503.8814.335
new2 15,503.888.280
me3 23,255.816.638
and4 31,007.756.069
her3 23,255.814.435
like2 15,503.883.778
the4 31,007.752.081
tae5 38,759.691.503
at2 15,503.881.199
wi2 15,503.880.863
an2 15,503.880.589
a5 38,759.690.370
in2 15,503.880.000