A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Kerr, Oliwia, Sarah and Amber

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 292
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 139
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.101
Tagged as DUN (Dundee) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, her, and, it, she, to, fiona, ring, so,

List of texts in corpus

Fiona and the Ring
Scots Hoose (01-01-2017) in Doric dialect (DUN), categorised as weans (292 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
fiona7 23,972.6083.195
ring6 20,547.9560.163
jaggy4 13,698.6353.124
johnny5 17,123.2949.605
to9 30,821.9241.091
rubbed3 10,273.9733.669
her13 44,520.5533.463
wished3 10,273.9730.281
next4 13,698.6324.766
so6 20,547.9524.267
and12 41,095.8923.988
she10 34,246.5821.277
happily2 6,849.3220.423
burn3 10,273.9719.242
evil2 6,849.3218.049
lived2 6,849.3216.044
college2 6,849.3215.432
wanted2 6,849.3213.381
when4 13,698.6313.235
wee5 17,123.2912.364
mither3 10,273.9712.095
stane2 6,849.3212.044
ever2 6,849.3210.305
dug2 6,849.329.963
lang3 10,273.978.506
it10 34,246.588.416
wisna2 6,849.327.675
went2 6,849.326.819
day3 10,273.975.183
ane2 6,849.324.438
for5 17,123.294.407
was2 6,849.324.357
then2 6,849.324.177
fae3 10,273.973.535
had2 6,849.323.333
a14 47,945.213.039
tae3 10,273.972.152
as4 13,698.632.027
o3 10,273.971.895
the13 44,520.551.100
in3 10,273.970.611
wi2 6,849.320.017
that3 10,273.970.005
wis3 10,273.970.000