A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McLachlan, Jack

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 341
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 179
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.905
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, tae, an, glessheids, that, in, cauld, a, wi,

List of texts in corpus

Glessheids maun wale guid neebors tae thole the dreich Scottish climate
University of Maine (2019-05-08) in Central (Ceres) dialect (SEC), categorised as prose (341 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
climates3 8,797.6543.684
maiks3 8,797.6541.453
climate3 8,797.6531.618
thole4 11,730.2129.957
social4 11,730.2127.678
species3 8,797.6527.214
glessheids8 23,460.41nan
cauld6 17,595.3134.365
dreich3 8,797.6524.099
caulder2 5,865.1021.309
airts3 8,797.6519.495
team2 5,865.1014.419
fand2 5,865.1013.461
aiberdeen2 5,865.1012.947
unco2 5,865.1012.571
dr2 5,865.1011.983
scottish3 8,797.6510.565
about2 5,865.109.509
lat2 5,865.109.137
frae4 11,730.217.891
bi3 8,797.656.995
the31 90,909.095.725
baith2 5,865.105.648
ae3 8,797.655.122
new2 5,865.104.709
gin2 5,865.104.704
o13 38,123.174.197
mair3 8,797.654.177
thair2 5,865.104.087
stressfu2 5,865.10nan
colour2 5,865.1012.532
thaim2 5,865.103.930
guid2 5,865.103.651
hae3 8,797.653.573
wi6 17,595.313.437
ither2 5,865.103.412
that7 20,527.863.026
richt2 5,865.102.981
are2 5,865.102.978
a6 17,595.311.909
they3 8,797.651.578
it2 5,865.101.277
an12 35,190.621.194
wis2 5,865.100.731
in7 20,527.860.497
s3 8,797.650.066
at2 5,865.100.016
is2 5,865.100.005
hardiness2 5,865.10nan
lancaster2 5,865.10nan
for2 5,865.100.004
physiologic2 5,865.10nan
tae12 35,190.622.606
varsitie2 5,865.10nan
efter2 5,865.103.400