A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McCabe, Mary

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 360
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 233
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.545
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, a, in, on, wi, oot, aye, tae,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 73 - Tap Table
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (140 words)
Lallans 73 - Soond shift
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (220 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
daunerin2 5,555.5626.405
may3 8,333.3321.170
barra2 5,555.5620.473
helicopter2 5,555.5619.173
blae2 5,555.5618.957
coont2 5,555.5616.196
shift2 5,555.5614.191
chiel2 5,555.5611.751
the37 102,777.7810.967
yet2 5,555.568.426
watter2 5,555.567.420
mornin2 5,555.566.791
an18 50,000.006.645
has2 5,555.566.548
through2 5,555.566.107
aye3 8,333.335.505
oot5 13,888.895.023
whaur2 5,555.564.777
day3 8,333.334.199
in11 30,555.564.099
tae3 8,333.333.850
wey2 5,555.563.814
ower3 8,333.333.527
o13 36,111.113.474
on5 13,888.892.556
ae2 5,555.562.053
wi5 13,888.891.589
it2 5,555.561.475
me2 5,555.560.521
a12 33,333.330.191
his2 5,555.560.002
for2 5,555.560.000