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 60,913.71173.219
dust3 15,228.4332.200
cities2 10,152.2823.152
becomes2 10,152.2820.728
bane2 10,152.2820.381
ivry2 10,152.2820.381
sea3 15,228.4319.970
ocean2 10,152.2819.765
death2 10,152.2815.788
left3 15,228.4314.465
deid2 10,152.2811.218
lang3 15,228.4310.690
fan2 10,152.289.906
how2 10,152.289.238
far2 10,152.288.211
intae3 15,228.437.907
fae3 15,228.435.389
afore2 10,152.285.079
are2 10,152.284.900
some2 10,152.284.521
a2 10,152.283.357
the6 30,456.853.346
wi4 20,304.572.956
her2 10,152.280.740
tae6 30,456.850.673
ah2 10,152.280.620
on2 10,152.280.425
and2 10,152.280.317
o5 25,380.710.206