A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Kerr, Oliwia, Sarah and Amber

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 292
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 139
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.101
Tagged as DUN (Dundee) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, her, and, it, she, to, fiona, ring, so,

List of texts in corpus

Fiona and the Ring
Scots Hoose (01-01-2017) in Doric dialect (DUN), categorised as weans (292 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
fiona7 23,972.6083.708
ring6 20,547.9559.440
jaggy4 13,698.6353.082
johnny5 17,123.2949.552
to9 30,821.9240.543
rubbed3 10,273.9733.638
her13 44,520.5533.557
wished3 10,273.9730.249
next4 13,698.6324.596
so6 20,547.9524.227
and12 41,095.8923.986
she10 34,246.5821.001
happily2 6,849.3220.660
burn3 10,273.9719.210
evil2 6,849.3218.028
lived2 6,849.3215.941
college2 6,849.3215.482
wanted2 6,849.3213.277
when4 13,698.6313.028
wee5 17,123.2912.326
stane2 6,849.3212.269
mither3 10,273.9712.179
ever2 6,849.3210.155
dug2 6,849.329.790
lang3 10,273.978.581
it10 34,246.588.286
wisna2 6,849.327.767
went2 6,849.326.792
day3 10,273.975.124
was2 6,849.324.472
for5 17,123.294.459
ane2 6,849.324.448
then2 6,849.324.156
fae3 10,273.973.549
had2 6,849.323.368
a14 47,945.212.994
tae3 10,273.972.131
as4 13,698.632.080
o3 10,273.971.856
the13 44,520.551.077
in3 10,273.970.600
wi2 6,849.320.015
that3 10,273.970.006
wis3 10,273.970.001