Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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MacKenzie, Douglas

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 248
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 166
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.494
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - and, ye, tae, the, a, frae, o, that, yer, for,

List of texts in corpus

Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch
Eemis Stane (2022-05-06 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (248 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
hawk	2	8,064.52	25.752
kyte	2	8,064.52	23.857
frae	6	24,193.55	19.554
and	10	40,322.58	19.515
ye	9	36,290.32	19.262
yer	5	20,161.29	15.178
true	2	8,064.52	12.721
windae	2	8,064.52	10.761
great	2	8,064.52	9.578
though	2	8,064.52	8.927
your	2	8,064.52	8.162
while	2	8,064.52	7.919
could	2	8,064.52	5.564
say	2	8,064.52	5.290
the	7	28,225.81	4.973
were	2	8,064.52	4.370
are	2	8,064.52	4.010
some	2	8,064.52	3.735
me	3	12,096.77	3.467
for	4	16,129.03	3.251
i	4	16,129.03	2.954
that	5	20,161.29	2.070
no	2	8,064.52	1.793
tae	8	32,258.06	1.212
in	2	8,064.52	1.109
this	2	8,064.52	0.888
be	2	8,064.52	0.384
her	2	8,064.52	0.356
she	2	8,064.52	0.344
a	6	24,193.55	0.241
o	6	24,193.55	0.153
is	2	8,064.52	0.132
wi	2	8,064.52	0.012