A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Valentine, Lynn

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 90
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 66
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.364
Tagged as NEC (North East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, ma, fir, hir, roon, couldnae, girnin, thi, the, wullnae,

List of texts in corpus

Thi Loast Bairn
Wigtown (2015-09-01) in Central (Arbroath) dialect (NEC), categorised as poetry (90 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
wullnae2 22,222.2229.839
fir4 44,444.4426.623
girnin2 22,222.2223.222
hir3 33,333.3322.880
thi2 22,222.2217.324
ma5 55,555.5616.406
couldnae2 22,222.2215.170
let2 22,222.2212.216
roon2 22,222.2211.032
a8 88,888.897.371
the2 22,222.222.751
in2 22,222.220.229