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 8,797.6543.671
maiks3 8,797.6541.441
climate3 8,797.6531.606
thole4 11,730.2130.088
social4 11,730.2127.499
species3 8,797.6526.883
glessheids8 23,460.41nan
cauld6 17,595.3134.459
dreich3 8,797.6524.086
caulder2 5,865.1021.300
airts3 8,797.6519.617
team2 5,865.1014.348
fand2 5,865.1013.453
aiberdeen2 5,865.1012.938
unco2 5,865.1012.563
dr2 5,865.1012.043
scottish3 8,797.6510.689
about2 5,865.109.591
lat2 5,865.109.113
frae4 11,730.217.809
bi3 8,797.656.984
the31 90,909.095.683
baith2 5,865.105.570
ae3 8,797.655.134
new2 5,865.104.719
gin2 5,865.104.701
o13 38,123.174.149
mair3 8,797.654.130
thair2 5,865.104.058
stressfu2 5,865.10nan
colour2 5,865.1012.563
thaim2 5,865.103.954
guid2 5,865.103.681
hae3 8,797.653.555
wi6 17,595.313.385
ither2 5,865.103.371
are2 5,865.103.056
that7 20,527.863.032
richt2 5,865.102.960
a6 17,595.311.888
they3 8,797.651.571
it2 5,865.101.245
an12 35,190.621.122
wis2 5,865.100.739
in7 20,527.860.493
s3 8,797.650.084
at2 5,865.100.018
is2 5,865.100.005
hardiness2 5,865.10nan
lancaster2 5,865.10nan
for2 5,865.100.002
physiologic2 5,865.10nan
tae12 35,190.622.571
varsitie2 5,865.10nan
efter2 5,865.103.430