A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Christie, Hilary

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 408
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 215
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.898
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, an, i, o, in, at, growin, but, growe,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 78 - Ma Freens in Chains
Lallans Magazine (2011-07-01 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (408 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
growes5 12,254.9060.411
growin6 14,705.8852.636
growe5 12,254.9047.527
chains3 7,352.9436.596
chink3 7,352.9435.725
freen3 7,352.9424.898
i13 31,862.7523.175
cell2 4,901.9621.917
sin4 9,803.9220.125
miracle2 4,901.9619.143
wire2 4,901.9618.901
there's3 7,352.9418.462
lift3 7,352.9417.171
seekin2 4,901.9616.912
skewer4 9,803.92nan
saltire2 4,901.9616.772
freens2 4,901.9614.232
oh3 7,352.9413.614
licht3 7,352.9413.558
howp2 4,901.9613.278
aneth2 4,901.9612.422
man4 9,803.9211.058
sky2 4,901.9610.214
hert2 4,901.968.118
see4 9,803.927.836
body2 4,901.967.345
but6 14,705.887.185
lang3 7,352.946.729
aa4 9,803.926.592
dinna2 4,901.965.877
mony2 4,901.965.461
tae3 7,352.945.181
at7 17,156.865.048
sae3 7,352.944.559
ma5 12,254.904.203
their3 7,352.944.188
fit2 4,901.963.012
an16 39,215.692.547
are2 4,901.962.515
the31 75,980.392.254
oot4 9,803.922.225
o13 31,862.752.169
ay2 4,901.962.036
aye2 4,901.962.034
oor2 4,901.962.030
a17 41,666.671.922
be4 9,803.921.454
wee2 4,901.961.113
it3 7,352.940.781
wi2 4,901.960.415
in8 19,607.840.394
or2 4,901.960.276
for3 7,352.940.202
on2 4,901.960.119
they2 4,901.960.100
is3 7,352.940.088
his2 4,901.960.052