A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McLachlan, Jack

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 341
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 179
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.905
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, tae, an, glessheids, that, in, cauld, a, wi,

List of texts in corpus

Glessheids maun wale guid neebors tae thole the dreich Scottish climate
University of Maine (2019-05-08) in Central (Ceres) dialect (SEC), categorised as prose (341 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
climates3 8,797.6543.674
maiks3 8,797.6541.444
climate3 8,797.6531.609
thole4 11,730.2129.944
social4 11,730.2127.666
species3 8,797.6527.205
glessheids8 23,460.41nan
cauld6 17,595.3134.345
dreich3 8,797.6524.089
caulder2 5,865.1021.302
airts3 8,797.6519.485
team2 5,865.1014.413
fand2 5,865.1013.455
aiberdeen2 5,865.1012.940
unco2 5,865.1012.565
dr2 5,865.1011.976
scottish3 8,797.6510.556
about2 5,865.109.503
lat2 5,865.109.131
frae4 11,730.217.880
bi3 8,797.656.987
the31 90,909.095.731
baith2 5,865.105.648
ae3 8,797.655.190
new2 5,865.104.703
gin2 5,865.104.699
o13 38,123.174.177
mair3 8,797.654.169
thair2 5,865.104.081
stressfu2 5,865.10nan
colour2 5,865.1012.605
thaim2 5,865.103.925
guid2 5,865.103.646
hae3 8,797.653.566
wi6 17,595.313.434
ither2 5,865.103.406
that7 20,527.863.032
richt2 5,865.102.976
are2 5,865.102.973
a6 17,595.311.910
they3 8,797.651.589
it2 5,865.101.274
an12 35,190.621.189
wis2 5,865.100.736
in7 20,527.860.495
s3 8,797.650.067
at2 5,865.100.016
is2 5,865.100.005
hardiness2 5,865.10nan
lancaster2 5,865.10nan
for2 5,865.100.004
physiologic2 5,865.10nan
tae12 35,190.622.604
varsitie2 5,865.10nan
efter2 5,865.103.401