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 16,759.7845.331
bit8 44,692.7430.939
am4 22,346.3727.742
a19 106,145.2522.610
type2 11,173.1819.874
es2 11,173.1817.837
thit3 16,759.7817.131
its4 22,346.3716.028
fecht2 11,173.1814.326
doric2 11,173.1813.610
it's3 16,759.7812.726
sair2 11,173.1810.982
so3 16,759.7810.962
dinna2 11,173.188.944
mak2 11,173.186.923
ain2 11,173.185.863
fit2 11,173.185.820
richt2 11,173.185.133
it6 33,519.554.877
jist2 11,173.184.611
intae2 11,173.184.184
ye3 16,759.782.795
ah3 16,759.782.671
in5 27,932.961.441
ma2 11,173.181.431
tae2 11,173.181.092
an3 16,759.780.641
is2 11,173.180.589
and2 11,173.180.462
o5 27,932.960.427