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Cowie Tong, Margaret
Basic Stats
Total words by this author in corpus - 125
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 86
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.453
Tagged as MNA (Mid Northern A) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, tae, i, is, an, a, buckie, nae, ye, wis,
List of texts in corpus
Facebook (2012-10-13) in Doric (Buckie) dialect (MNA), categorised as social
(125 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 |
|---|
| buckie | 3 |
24,000.00 | 39.228 |
| ging | 2 |
16,000.00 | 16.763 |
| hiv | 2 |
16,000.00 | 10.937 |
| i | 5 |
40,000.00 | 10.806 |
| fin | 2 |
16,000.00 | 8.821 |
| nae | 3 |
24,000.00 | 7.552 |
| fit | 2 |
16,000.00 | 7.152 |
| is | 4 |
32,000.00 | 6.796 |
| ye | 3 |
24,000.00 | 4.393 |
| bit | 2 |
16,000.00 | 3.976 |
| tae | 6 |
48,000.00 | 3.115 |
| for | 2 |
16,000.00 | 1.582 |
| wis | 2 |
16,000.00 | 0.360 |
| an | 4 |
32,000.00 | 0.189 |
| o | 2 |
16,000.00 | 0.143 |
| a | 4 |
32,000.00 | 0.033 |
| a'bidy | 2 |
16,000.00 | nan |
| the | 7 |
56,000.00 | 0.013 |