Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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MacKenzie, Douglas

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 248
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 166
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.494
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - and, ye, tae, the, a, frae, o, that, yer, for,

List of texts in corpus

Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch
Eemis Stane (2022-05-06 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (248 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
hawk	2	8,064.52	26.658
kyte	2	8,064.52	23.855
and	10	40,322.58	19.642
frae	6	24,193.55	19.437
ye	9	36,290.32	19.359
yer	5	20,161.29	15.322
true	2	8,064.52	12.690
windae	2	8,064.52	10.851
great	2	8,064.52	9.472
though	2	8,064.52	8.981
your	2	8,064.52	8.306
while	2	8,064.52	7.843
could	2	8,064.52	5.554
say	2	8,064.52	5.398
the	7	28,225.81	5.005
were	2	8,064.52	4.365
are	2	8,064.52	4.098
some	2	8,064.52	3.734
me	3	12,096.77	3.622
for	4	16,129.03	3.204
i	4	16,129.03	3.021
that	5	20,161.29	2.070
no	2	8,064.52	1.816
tae	8	32,258.06	1.194
in	2	8,064.52	1.110
this	2	8,064.52	0.890
be	2	8,064.52	0.382
she	2	8,064.52	0.360
her	2	8,064.52	0.343
a	6	24,193.55	0.234
o	6	24,193.55	0.148
is	2	8,064.52	0.132
wi	2	8,064.52	0.010