A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Howat, Irene

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 283
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 173
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.636
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - yer, wis, in, sma, the, tae, an, a, o, steek,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 102 - Shewin Wuman and Sma Warld
Lallans Magazine (2023-07 ) in Central dialect (SEC), categorised as poetry (283 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
sma9 31,802.1282.410
steek4 14,134.2850.584
yer11 38,869.2647.126
needle3 10,600.7133.169
clathes2 7,067.1427.370
leeved2 7,067.1422.106
warld4 14,134.2821.918
shewin2 7,067.1420.607
nancy2 7,067.1420.136
waddin2 7,067.1418.668
thru2 7,067.1418.098
ferm3 10,600.7117.131
hir3 10,600.7116.037
poued2 7,067.1415.833
thit3 10,600.7114.480
wis11 38,869.2613.681
toon2 7,067.1410.580
yin3 10,600.7110.477
bonnie2 7,067.1410.211
lat2 7,067.149.859
hert2 7,067.149.523
ilka2 7,067.148.168
hud2 7,067.147.766
shewing2 7,067.14nan
whaur2 7,067.145.634
the8 28,268.555.541
in10 35,335.695.290
whan2 7,067.144.018
fur3 10,600.713.928
nae3 10,600.713.513
ye4 14,134.282.797
wee2 7,067.142.056
she3 10,600.711.306
is3 10,600.710.746
a6 21,201.410.731
o4 14,134.280.671
an6 21,201.410.248
be2 7,067.140.209
on2 7,067.140.034
it3 10,600.710.033
tae6 21,201.410.001