A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mackintosh, Henrietta

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 727
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 346
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.101
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, tae, an, o, that, a, aboot, gaelic, fowk, scots,

List of texts in corpus

A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve
The Sair Fecht (22-06-2015) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as blog (727 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
gaelic12 16,506.1960.054
thir10 13,755.1650.147
fowk12 16,506.1935.885
leids7 9,628.6135.201
aboot13 17,881.7125.088
stereotypes2 2,751.0322.404
are8 11,004.1320.848
scrieves2 2,751.0320.761
authors2 2,751.0320.761
affection2 2,751.0318.330
speak4 5,502.0617.469
deserve2 2,751.0316.836
attitudes2 2,751.0316.594
parteecular2 2,751.0316.367
romantic2 2,751.0315.948
scots11 15,130.6715.866
efforts2 2,751.0315.754
speakin3 4,126.5515.514
landscape2 2,751.0315.392
katie2 2,751.0315.223
respeck2 2,751.0315.223
yaised3 4,126.5514.811
seem3 4,126.5514.769
passion2 2,751.0314.612
airticles2 2,751.0314.339
value2 2,751.0313.843
beauty2 2,751.0313.729
tent3 4,126.5513.362
yaisin2 2,751.0313.009
wurds2 2,751.0312.168
mibbie2 2,751.0311.740
that18 24,759.2811.616
scrievin2 2,751.0311.416
teuk2 2,751.0311.416
wha4 5,502.0611.090
words3 4,126.5510.815
mean3 4,126.5510.525
scotland5 6,877.5810.400
daes2 2,751.0310.026
problem2 2,751.039.657
common2 2,751.039.393
speakers2 2,751.038.581
tak4 5,502.068.522
of5 6,877.588.215
important2 2,751.037.821
real2 2,751.037.797
thaim4 5,502.067.474
languages2 2,751.037.116
scottish3 4,126.556.658
baith3 4,126.556.508
hae6 8,253.096.458
nor3 4,126.555.791
am2 2,751.035.721
tae25 34,387.904.883
whit5 6,877.584.820
language3 4,126.554.771
wey3 4,126.554.292
i9 12,379.644.065
is9 12,379.643.541
on9 12,379.643.503
ither3 4,126.553.401
a14 19,257.222.960
tell2 2,751.032.906
wi2 2,751.032.891
the32 44,016.512.768
twa3 4,126.552.678
mind2 2,751.032.381
can3 4,126.552.225
and2 2,751.032.100
ae3 4,126.551.911
say2 2,751.031.877
no4 5,502.061.802
gallogly-swan2 2,751.03nan
their3 4,126.551.801
yer3 4,126.551.629
been3 4,126.551.570
an24 33,012.381.406
we5 6,877.581.207
mair3 4,126.551.155
were2 2,751.031.150
o19 26,134.800.991
at3 4,126.550.686
it11 15,130.670.659
oor2 2,751.030.653
as6 8,253.090.485
be5 6,877.580.446
she5 6,877.580.426
s4 5,502.060.396
you2 2,751.030.327
they2 2,751.030.270
in10 13,755.160.169
or3 4,126.550.139
vonny2 2,751.03nan
for5 6,877.580.195
this3 4,126.550.016
but3 4,126.550.011
like2 2,751.030.007
fae2 2,751.030.000
moyes2 2,751.03nan
there2 2,751.030.009