Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mackie, Matthew

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 149
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 101
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.475
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, ma, juist, it, an, wee, guid, on, at, aa,

List of texts in corpus

Guid Mornin! Guid Nicht!
Tippermuir (2023-06-26 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as weans (149 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
butter	2	13,422.82	20.411
juist	4	26,845.64	20.078
ginger	2	13,422.82	19.622
ah'll	2	13,422.82	18.963
breid	2	13,422.82	18.552
ma	6	40,268.46	16.638
cat	2	13,422.82	13.565
guid	3	20,134.23	12.138
mornin	2	13,422.82	10.165
wee	3	20,134.23	8.248
it's	2	13,422.82	7.679
mak	2	13,422.82	7.601
come	2	13,422.82	7.369
are	2	13,422.82	5.918
noo	2	13,422.82	4.943
time	2	13,422.82	4.643
aa	2	13,422.82	4.348
no	2	13,422.82	3.370
on	3	20,134.23	2.948
at	3	20,134.23	2.800
up	2	13,422.82	2.155
it	4	26,845.64	2.148
oot	2	13,422.82	1.914
a	2	13,422.82	1.658
ye	2	13,422.82	1.271
ah	2	13,422.82	1.246
for	2	13,422.82	1.169
the	6	40,268.46	0.939
o	2	13,422.82	0.441
an	4	26,845.64	0.007