Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Hume, David

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 279
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 164
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.701
Tagged as BUL (Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, they, frae, in, hae, he, d, doon, o,

List of texts in corpus

Aince the corncrake caa’ed
Ullans Magazine (2012) in Ulster (Ballycarry) dialect (BUL), categorised as poetry (114 words)

The Aldfreck Coalmining Disaster
Ullans Magazine (2012) in Ulster (Ballycarry) dialect (BUL), categorised as poetry (165 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
caa	4	14,336.92	31.414
coal	3	10,752.69	27.371
brae	3	10,752.69	21.652
wus	3	10,752.69	20.824
boy	3	10,752.69	20.058
frae	6	21,505.38	18.290
wile	2	7,168.46	18.105
braes	2	7,168.46	17.378
aul	2	7,168.46	16.671
thon	4	14,336.92	16.395
hear	3	10,752.69	14.737
d	5	17,921.15	14.647
they	7	25,089.61	14.471
bits	2	7,168.46	13.325
doon	5	17,921.15	12.436
hae	5	17,921.15	11.769
aince	2	7,168.46	10.289
dug	2	7,168.46	9.979
days	2	7,168.46	6.759
telt	2	7,168.46	6.113
aa	3	10,752.69	5.623
mak	2	7,168.46	5.371
come	2	7,168.46	5.049
fur	3	10,752.69	4.000
by	2	7,168.46	3.015
their	2	7,168.46	2.722
he	5	17,921.15	2.117
corncrake	2	7,168.46	nan
a	13	46,594.98	2.501
ower	2	7,168.46	1.926
an	4	14,336.92	1.622
aboot	2	7,168.46	1.191
me	2	7,168.46	0.959
tae	4	14,336.92	0.749
but	2	7,168.46	0.607
o	4	14,336.92	0.596
in	6	21,505.38	0.573
the	19	68,100.36	0.472
s	3	10,752.69	0.334
his	2	7,168.46	0.099
at	2	7,168.46	0.025
that	3	10,752.69	0.022
and	2	7,168.46	0.010