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	31.398
coal	3	10,752.69	27.497
brae	3	10,752.69	21.536
wus	3	10,752.69	20.811
boy	3	10,752.69	20.166
frae	6	21,505.38	18.157
wile	2	7,168.46	18.096
braes	2	7,168.46	17.370
aul	2	7,168.46	16.663
thon	4	14,336.92	16.110
d	5	17,921.15	14.700
hear	3	10,752.69	14.584
they	7	25,089.61	14.446
bits	2	7,168.46	13.278
doon	5	17,921.15	12.461
hae	5	17,921.15	11.733
aince	2	7,168.46	10.298
dug	2	7,168.46	10.140
days	2	7,168.46	6.889
telt	2	7,168.46	6.106
aa	3	10,752.69	5.472
mak	2	7,168.46	5.297
come	2	7,168.46	5.045
fur	3	10,752.69	4.081
by	2	7,168.46	2.994
corncrake	2	7,168.46	nan
their	2	7,168.46	2.704
a	13	46,594.98	2.527
he	5	17,921.15	2.075
ower	2	7,168.46	1.907
an	4	14,336.92	1.689
aboot	2	7,168.46	1.176
me	2	7,168.46	1.036
tae	4	14,336.92	0.763
but	2	7,168.46	0.621
o	4	14,336.92	0.610
in	6	21,505.38	0.569
the	19	68,100.36	0.461
s	3	10,752.69	0.372
his	2	7,168.46	0.093
at	2	7,168.46	0.022
that	3	10,752.69	0.022
and	2	7,168.46	0.011