A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Bruce, Meg

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 179
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 105
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.705
Tagged as MNA (Mid Northern A) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, bit, it, in, o, its, am, so, ah, thit,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2013-10-25) in Doric (Buckie) dialect (MNA), categorised as social (179 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
contraption3 16,759.7843.756
bit8 44,692.7430.976
am4 22,346.3727.531
a19 106,145.2522.538
type2 11,173.1819.267
es2 11,173.1817.926
thit3 16,759.7817.144
its4 22,346.3716.144
fecht2 11,173.1814.400
doric2 11,173.1813.619
it's3 16,759.7812.745
sair2 11,173.1811.032
so3 16,759.7810.969
dinna2 11,173.188.976
mak2 11,173.187.000
fit2 11,173.185.924
ain2 11,173.185.871
richt2 11,173.185.156
it6 33,519.554.815
jist2 11,173.184.673
intae2 11,173.184.132
ye3 16,759.782.758
ah3 16,759.782.339
in5 27,932.961.446
ma2 11,173.181.314
tae2 11,173.181.079
an3 16,759.780.607
is2 11,173.180.591
and2 11,173.180.452
o5 27,932.960.437