A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lochhead, Liz

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 380
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 216
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.759
Tagged as WCE (West Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, an, the, in, o, it, ma, s, or, i,

List of texts in corpus

Ashet
Dictionaries of the Scots Language (2021-11-30) in Central dialect (WCE), categorised as poetry (380 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
ashet3 7,894.7436.150
winterdykes2 5,263.1627.912
platter2 5,263.1625.002
nuthin2 5,263.1624.095
jam2 5,263.1617.194
sair3 7,894.7414.534
ma8 21,052.6313.185
clock2 5,263.1612.701
or7 18,421.0512.673
press2 5,263.1612.075
rid2 5,263.1610.699
ever2 5,263.169.320
black2 5,263.169.050
huv2 5,263.168.580
no5 13,157.898.272
heid3 7,894.747.344
haun2 5,263.166.898
how2 5,263.166.795
which2 5,263.166.487
a20 52,631.585.876
gey2 5,263.165.866
baith2 5,263.165.187
pie-dish3 7,894.74nan
but5 13,157.895.186
tell2 5,263.165.082
the13 34,210.534.529
s7 18,421.054.427
i6 15,789.474.426
could2 5,263.164.106
mair3 7,894.743.623
it9 23,684.213.609
wee3 7,894.743.568
in11 28,947.373.524
an16 42,105.263.411
than2 5,263.163.319
wid2 5,263.163.175
here2 5,263.163.095
ll2 5,263.163.081
for5 13,157.892.809
to2 5,263.162.796
is5 13,157.892.285
aye2 5,263.162.240
day2 5,263.161.496
that2 5,263.160.998
bit2 5,263.160.827
o10 26,315.790.551
be3 7,894.740.532
ye3 7,894.740.394
as3 7,894.740.178
oot2 5,263.160.096
on2 5,263.160.056
wi3 7,894.740.009
wis4 10,526.320.009