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 15,384.6234.024
ad2 10,256.4119.400
but6 30,769.2314.498
we6 30,769.2314.242
ma6 30,769.2313.698
granny2 10,256.4113.353
school2 10,256.4113.137
will3 15,384.6211.802
never2 10,256.419.433
let2 10,256.419.220
keep2 10,256.418.591
want2 10,256.418.497
just2 10,256.418.172
hoose2 10,256.416.228
aw3 15,384.626.151
be4 20,512.825.245
or3 15,384.624.578
oor2 10,256.414.444
this3 15,384.623.881
yer2 10,256.413.749
and4 20,512.823.651
the6 30,769.233.230
it5 25,641.032.427
tae7 35,897.441.613
is2 10,256.410.442
in4 20,512.820.280
s2 10,256.410.192
a6 30,769.230.016
cany2 10,256.41nan