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 23,972.6083.789
ring6 20,547.9559.509
jaggy4 13,698.6353.128
johnny5 17,123.2949.397
to9 30,821.9240.616
rubbed3 10,273.9733.672
her13 44,520.5533.669
wished3 10,273.9730.284
next4 13,698.6324.641
so6 20,547.9524.272
and12 41,095.8923.834
she10 34,246.5821.084
happily2 6,849.3220.683
burn3 10,273.9719.245
evil2 6,849.3218.051
lived2 6,849.3215.884
college2 6,849.3215.434
wanted2 6,849.3213.300
when4 13,698.6312.939
wee5 17,123.2912.320
mither3 10,273.9712.160
stane2 6,849.3212.106
ever2 6,849.3210.141
dug2 6,849.329.796
lang3 10,273.978.540
it10 34,246.588.322
wisna2 6,849.327.789
went2 6,849.326.814
day3 10,273.975.137
was2 6,849.324.492
for5 17,123.294.468
ane2 6,849.324.430
then2 6,849.324.163
fae3 10,273.973.490
had2 6,849.323.337
a14 47,945.213.009
tae3 10,273.972.129
as4 13,698.632.064
o3 10,273.971.881
the13 44,520.551.083
in3 10,273.970.610
wi2 6,849.320.014
that3 10,273.970.005
wis3 10,273.970.000