A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

. .Previous author - Next author
- fine grain dialect comparison - Venn diagrams - punctuation analysis - chronology -

MacKinnon, Ann

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 556
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 324
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.716
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, tae, and, i, it, o, me, he, fur,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 70 - Five Poems
Lallans Magazine (2007-06 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (556 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
killt3 5,395.6826.188
naething4 7,194.2424.907
economically2 3,597.1222.515
feather2 3,597.1222.515
brent2 3,597.1220.622
active2 3,597.1217.850
burds2 3,597.1216.581
flees2 3,597.1216.404
village2 3,597.1212.879
and12 21,582.7311.786
me8 14,388.4911.776
cawed2 3,597.1211.381
fur7 12,589.9311.242
i10 17,985.618.992
poem2 3,597.128.838
i'm2 3,597.128.626
naebody2 3,597.127.529
nae6 10,791.377.169
bairn2 3,597.126.870
read2 3,597.126.550
hame3 5,395.686.308
goat2 3,597.126.257
watter2 3,597.125.790
taen2 3,597.125.480
a26 46,762.595.121
need2 3,597.124.885
till2 3,597.124.847
but6 10,791.374.603
wee4 7,194.244.247
had3 5,395.683.873
life2 3,597.123.830
his7 12,589.933.411
noo3 5,395.683.060
it's2 3,597.122.975
ony2 3,597.122.964
cam2 3,597.122.960
her6 10,791.372.590
the24 43,165.472.546
then2 3,597.122.137
ower3 5,395.681.765
he8 14,388.491.703
couardie2 3,597.12nan
are2 3,597.121.628
wis3 5,395.681.514
conshie2 3,597.12nan
wi2 3,597.121.408
oan2 3,597.121.408
they4 7,194.241.263
aye2 3,597.121.222
fae3 5,395.681.107
by2 3,597.121.088
ma4 7,194.240.986
in6 10,791.370.935
intae2 3,597.120.906
aboot3 5,395.680.874
it9 16,187.050.845
you2 3,597.120.770
on2 3,597.120.708
as2 3,597.120.690
aa2 3,597.120.662
frae2 3,597.120.643
day2 3,597.120.638
or3 5,395.680.634
o9 16,187.050.584
at5 8,992.810.502
tae14 25,179.860.346
hae2 3,597.120.322
aw2 3,597.120.296
no2 3,597.120.187
like2 3,597.120.184
oot3 5,395.680.174
him2 3,597.120.164
is4 7,194.240.090
that6 10,791.370.048
we2 3,597.120.021
up2 3,597.120.009
this2 3,597.120.007