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 -

McBeath, Lorraine

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 129
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 87
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.483
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - she, i, a, tae, and, the, she's, me, her, new,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - The New Quine at School
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (129 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
she's3 23,255.8129.471
gings2 15,503.8822.811
she7 54,263.5720.691
quine2 15,503.8815.871
gan2 15,503.8815.411
school2 15,503.8814.729
i6 46,511.6314.562
i'm2 15,503.8814.356
new2 15,503.888.297
me3 23,255.816.821
and4 31,007.756.117
her3 23,255.814.393
like2 15,503.883.815
the4 31,007.752.096
tae5 38,759.691.487
at2 15,503.881.185
wi2 15,503.880.848
an2 15,503.880.615
a5 38,759.690.376
in2 15,503.880.000