A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Howat, Irene

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 283
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 173
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.636
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - yer, wis, in, sma, the, tae, an, a, o, steek,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 102 - Shewin Wuman and Sma Warld
Lallans Magazine (2023-07 ) in Central dialect (SEC), categorised as poetry (283 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
sma9 31,802.1282.152
steek4 14,134.2851.324
yer11 38,869.2647.398
needle3 10,600.7133.083
clathes2 7,067.1427.312
leeved2 7,067.1422.853
warld4 14,134.2821.891
shewin2 7,067.1420.549
nancy2 7,067.1420.079
thru2 7,067.1418.767
waddin2 7,067.1418.767
ferm3 10,600.7117.119
hir3 10,600.7115.973
poued2 7,067.1415.776
thit3 10,600.7114.396
wis11 38,869.2613.496
yin3 10,600.7110.825
toon2 7,067.1410.763
bonnie2 7,067.1410.155
lat2 7,067.149.803
hert2 7,067.149.467
ilka2 7,067.148.143
hud2 7,067.147.712
the8 28,268.555.693
shewing2 7,067.14nan
whaur2 7,067.145.655
in10 35,335.695.299
whan2 7,067.144.016
fur3 10,600.714.011
nae3 10,600.713.507
ye4 14,134.282.826
wee2 7,067.142.074
she3 10,600.711.275
is3 10,600.710.745
a6 21,201.410.707
o4 14,134.280.662
an6 21,201.410.235
be2 7,067.140.206
on2 7,067.140.035
it3 10,600.710.033
tae6 21,201.410.001