A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Christie, Hilary

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 408
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 215
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.898
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, an, i, o, in, at, growin, but, growe,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 78 - Ma Freens in Chains
Lallans Magazine (2011-07-01 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (408 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
growes5 12,254.9062.215
growin6 14,705.8852.465
growe5 12,254.9047.627
chains3 7,352.9436.510
chink3 7,352.9435.639
freen3 7,352.9425.656
i13 31,862.7523.025
cell2 4,901.9621.860
sin4 9,803.9220.111
miracle2 4,901.9619.086
wire2 4,901.9618.844
there's3 7,352.9418.510
lift3 7,352.9417.157
seekin2 4,901.9616.855
skewer4 9,803.92nan
saltire2 4,901.9616.715
freens2 4,901.9614.247
licht3 7,352.9413.625
oh3 7,352.9413.569
howp2 4,901.9613.222
aneth2 4,901.9612.365
man4 9,803.9211.070
sky2 4,901.9610.261
hert2 4,901.968.063
see4 9,803.927.831
body2 4,901.967.314
but6 14,705.887.188
lang3 7,352.946.713
aa4 9,803.926.682
dinna2 4,901.965.833
mony2 4,901.965.436
tae3 7,352.945.168
at7 17,156.865.014
sae3 7,352.944.560
ma5 12,254.904.171
their3 7,352.944.168
fit2 4,901.962.993
an16 39,215.692.603
are2 4,901.962.500
oot4 9,803.922.219
o13 31,862.752.191
the31 75,980.392.122
oor2 4,901.962.088
aye2 4,901.962.028
ay2 4,901.962.010
a17 41,666.671.974
be4 9,803.921.445
wee2 4,901.961.127
it3 7,352.940.782
wi2 4,901.960.421
in8 19,607.840.396
or2 4,901.960.283
for3 7,352.940.188
on2 4,901.960.116
they2 4,901.960.103
is3 7,352.940.088
his2 4,901.960.052