A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McCabe, Alan

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 251
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 138
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.819
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, a, tae, o, is, ma, me, aw, whan,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 73 - Unsteek the Door o Ma Hert
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (162 words)
Lallans 73 - Whan the wind blaws
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (89 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
gane3 11,952.1925.198
whitna2 7,968.1321.290
whan5 19,920.3219.486
blaws2 7,968.1318.797
mirk2 7,968.1317.088
ma7 27,888.4514.201
chynge2 7,968.1313.901
is8 31,872.5113.532
wind2 7,968.1312.585
aw5 19,920.3212.415
sang2 7,968.1311.743
noo4 15,936.2511.161
hert2 7,968.139.905
day4 15,936.259.835
me5 19,920.329.734
licht2 7,968.139.415
that's2 7,968.139.277
body2 7,968.139.144
an15 59,760.968.742
cannae2 7,968.138.414
maun2 7,968.137.485
left2 7,968.137.156
thing2 7,968.137.002
the23 91,633.474.392
whit2 7,968.132.291
tae9 35,856.572.090
bit2 7,968.131.823
a11 43,824.701.622
fae2 7,968.131.617
o8 31,872.511.364
on2 7,968.130.125
that2 7,968.130.098