A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Thain, Gianna

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 197
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 139
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.417
Tagged as MNA (Mid Northern A) dialect.
Top ten most common words - ih, tae, the, o, wi, sea, left, fae, lang, intae,

List of texts in corpus

Far Shaddas Lurk
Scots Hoose (2020) in Doric (Buckie) dialect (MNA), categorised as prose (197 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
ih12 60,913.71173.565
dust3 15,228.4332.286
cities2 10,152.2823.210
ivry2 10,152.2820.438
bane2 10,152.2820.438
becomes2 10,152.2820.275
sea3 15,228.4319.837
ocean2 10,152.2819.547
death2 10,152.2815.845
left3 15,228.4314.485
deid2 10,152.2811.226
lang3 15,228.4310.707
fan2 10,152.289.950
how2 10,152.289.293
far2 10,152.288.216
intae3 15,228.437.932
fae3 15,228.435.426
afore2 10,152.285.079
are2 10,152.284.919
some2 10,152.284.540
a2 10,152.283.396
the6 30,456.853.248
wi4 20,304.572.971
her2 10,152.280.761
tae6 30,456.850.669
ah2 10,152.280.646
on2 10,152.280.420
and2 10,152.280.328
o5 25,380.710.201