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 23,972.6083.397
ring6 20,547.9560.335
jaggy4 13,698.6353.239
johnny5 17,123.2949.748
to9 30,821.9241.232
rubbed3 10,273.9733.756
her13 44,520.5533.715
wished3 10,273.9730.367
next4 13,698.6324.815
so6 20,547.9524.379
and12 41,095.8924.145
she10 34,246.5821.446
happily2 6,849.3220.480
burn3 10,273.9719.183
evil2 6,849.3218.107
lived2 6,849.3216.101
college2 6,849.3215.489
when4 13,698.6313.301
wanted2 6,849.3213.193
wee5 17,123.2912.310
mither3 10,273.9712.116
stane2 6,849.3211.955
ever2 6,849.3210.342
dug2 6,849.3210.001
lang3 10,273.978.523
it10 34,246.588.418
wisna2 6,849.327.729
went2 6,849.326.766
day3 10,273.975.205
for5 17,123.294.474
ane2 6,849.324.471
was2 6,849.324.300
then2 6,849.324.127
fae3 10,273.973.568
had2 6,849.323.266
a14 47,945.212.983
tae3 10,273.972.159
as4 13,698.632.030
o3 10,273.971.910
the13 44,520.551.028
in3 10,273.970.614
wi2 6,849.320.016
that3 10,273.970.005
wis3 10,273.970.001