A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mather, Michelle

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 105
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 80
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.313
Tagged as MNA (Mid Northern A) dialect.
Top ten most common words - tae, in, a, the, then, i, afore, back, for, moving,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2012-10-13) in Doric (Buckie) dialect (MNA), categorised as social (105 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
moving2 19,047.6225.364
then3 28,571.4314.216
afore2 19,047.627.396
back2 19,047.625.372
i3 28,571.434.782
in5 47,619.054.551
tae6 57,142.864.397
for2 19,047.622.058
and2 19,047.621.626
the4 38,095.240.887
it2 19,047.620.406
a4 38,095.240.267