A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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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 23,255.8129.484
gings2 15,503.8822.820
she7 54,263.5720.557
quine2 15,503.8815.879
gan2 15,503.8815.513
school2 15,503.8814.738
i6 46,511.6314.437
i'm2 15,503.8814.341
new2 15,503.888.286
me3 23,255.816.641
and4 31,007.756.078
her3 23,255.814.440
like2 15,503.883.779
the4 31,007.752.082
tae5 38,759.691.504
at2 15,503.881.199
wi2 15,503.880.864
an2 15,503.880.587
a5 38,759.690.370
in2 15,503.880.000