A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Thain, Gianna

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 197
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 139
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.417
Tagged as MNA (Mid Northern A) dialect.
Top ten most common words - ih, tae, the, o, wi, sea, left, fae, lang, intae,

List of texts in corpus

Far Shaddas Lurk
Scots Hoose (2020) in Doric (Buckie) dialect (MNA), categorised as prose (197 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
ih12 60,913.71173.270
dust3 15,228.4332.213
cities2 10,152.2823.161
ivry2 10,152.2821.117
becomes2 10,152.2820.736
bane2 10,152.2820.389
sea3 15,228.4320.151
ocean2 10,152.2819.774
death2 10,152.2815.643
left3 15,228.4314.456
deid2 10,152.2811.226
lang3 15,228.4310.734
fan2 10,152.2810.065
how2 10,152.289.217
far2 10,152.288.337
intae3 15,228.437.825
fae3 15,228.435.329
afore2 10,152.285.147
are2 10,152.284.814
some2 10,152.284.523
a2 10,152.283.377
the6 30,456.853.326
wi4 20,304.572.995
her2 10,152.280.759
tae6 30,456.850.686
ah2 10,152.280.474
on2 10,152.280.436
and2 10,152.280.308
o5 25,380.710.213