Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mackie, Matthew

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 149
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 101
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.475
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, ma, juist, it, an, wee, guid, on, at, aa,

List of texts in corpus

Guid Mornin! Guid Nicht!
Tippermuir (2023-06-26 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as weans (149 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
butter	2	13,422.82	20.354
juist	4	26,845.64	20.019
ginger	2	13,422.82	19.564
ah'll	2	13,422.82	18.906
breid	2	13,422.82	18.654
ma	6	40,268.46	16.586
cat	2	13,422.82	13.552
guid	3	20,134.23	12.209
mornin	2	13,422.82	10.128
wee	3	20,134.23	8.282
it's	2	13,422.82	7.624
mak	2	13,422.82	7.606
come	2	13,422.82	7.340
are	2	13,422.82	5.899
noo	2	13,422.82	4.988
time	2	13,422.82	4.636
aa	2	13,422.82	4.396
no	2	13,422.82	3.347
on	3	20,134.23	2.961
at	3	20,134.23	2.784
up	2	13,422.82	2.159
it	4	26,845.64	2.147
oot	2	13,422.82	1.910
a	2	13,422.82	1.633
ye	2	13,422.82	1.286
ah	2	13,422.82	1.213
for	2	13,422.82	1.147
the	6	40,268.46	0.987
o	2	13,422.82	0.436
an	4	26,845.64	0.009