A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lochhead, Liz

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 380
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 216
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.759
Tagged as WCE (West Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, an, the, in, o, it, ma, s, or, i,

List of texts in corpus

Ashet
Dictionaries of the Scots Language (2021-11-30) in Central dialect (WCE), categorised as poetry (380 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
ashet3 7,894.7436.067
winterdykes2 5,263.1627.856
platter2 5,263.1624.947
nuthin2 5,263.1624.039
jam2 5,263.1617.139
sair3 7,894.7414.515
or7 18,421.0512.880
clock2 5,263.1612.646
ma8 21,052.6312.513
press2 5,263.1611.982
rid2 5,263.1610.782
ever2 5,263.169.120
black2 5,263.168.895
huv2 5,263.168.193
no5 13,157.898.148
heid3 7,894.747.297
haun2 5,263.166.762
how2 5,263.166.762
which2 5,263.166.461
a20 52,631.585.919
gey2 5,263.165.802
baith2 5,263.165.259
pie-dish3 7,894.74nan
but5 13,157.895.124
tell2 5,263.165.088
the13 34,210.534.654
i6 15,789.474.273
s7 18,421.054.272
could2 5,263.164.075
mair3 7,894.743.676
an16 42,105.263.602
wee3 7,894.743.573
it9 23,684.213.543
in11 28,947.373.538
than2 5,263.163.251
wid2 5,263.163.145
here2 5,263.163.106
ll2 5,263.163.029
for5 13,157.892.805
to2 5,263.162.687
aye2 5,263.162.346
is5 13,157.892.282
day2 5,263.161.461
that2 5,263.160.991
bit2 5,263.160.823
o10 26,315.790.572
be3 7,894.740.529
ye3 7,894.740.393
as3 7,894.740.189
oot2 5,263.160.094
on2 5,263.160.051
wi3 7,894.740.010
wis4 10,526.320.005