A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lawrenson, Dorothy

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 81
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 63
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.286
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, a, fae, starns, causey, lampless, owre, pit, suddent,

List of texts in corpus

Ranch Road 12, San Marcos
Scots Language Centre (2021-05-06) in Central (Fife) dialect (SEC), categorised as poetry (81 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
causey2 24,691.3627.890
starns2 24,691.3626.415
fae2 24,691.365.231
the10 123,456.794.841
o5 61,728.404.462
a3 37,037.040.158