A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McDonald, Alistair

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 119
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 81
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.469
Tagged as WCE (West Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - yer, tae, an, sing, the, cuckoo, me, tree, aa, sang,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 59 - Huntegowk
Lallans Magazine (2004-09) in Central (Netherlee) dialect (WCE), categorised as poetry (119 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
sing6 50,420.1762.615
yer8 67,226.8942.974
cuckoo3 25,210.0841.010
nest2 16,806.7220.994
loud2 16,806.7219.222
sang2 16,806.7214.802
tree2 16,806.7214.188
aince2 16,806.7213.657
me3 25,210.087.062
tae7 58,823.535.424
aa2 16,806.725.280
frae2 16,806.725.174
the3 25,210.082.965
an6 50,420.172.344
as2 16,806.721.536
that2 16,806.720.492