A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Wilson, Lucy

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 195
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 127
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.535
Tagged as WCE (West Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - tae, ma, the, a, we, but, it, and, be, in,

List of texts in corpus

Lock Doon
Greenock Telegraph (2021-05-18) in Central (Greenock) dialect (WCE), categorised as poetry (195 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
sa3 15,384.6234.027
ad2 10,256.4119.402
but6 30,769.2314.402
we6 30,769.2314.310
granny2 10,256.4113.327
ma6 30,769.2313.204
school2 10,256.4113.165
will3 15,384.6211.753
never2 10,256.419.270
let2 10,256.419.204
keep2 10,256.418.585
want2 10,256.418.475
just2 10,256.418.021
hoose2 10,256.416.303
aw3 15,384.626.106
be4 20,512.825.251
or3 15,384.624.636
oor2 10,256.414.459
this3 15,384.623.876
yer2 10,256.413.697
and4 20,512.823.610
the6 30,769.233.207
it5 25,641.032.388
tae7 35,897.441.633
is2 10,256.410.443
in4 20,512.820.281
s2 10,256.410.171
a6 30,769.230.015
cany2 10,256.41nan