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	26.715
kyte	2	8,064.52	23.912
and	10	40,322.58	19.772
frae	6	24,193.55	19.389
ye	9	36,290.32	19.269
yer	5	20,161.29	15.203
true	2	8,064.52	12.658
windae	2	8,064.52	10.888
great	2	8,064.52	9.477
though	2	8,064.52	9.014
your	2	8,064.52	8.333
while	2	8,064.52	7.800
could	2	8,064.52	5.597
say	2	8,064.52	5.351
the	7	28,225.81	4.872
were	2	8,064.52	4.350
are	2	8,064.52	4.115
some	2	8,064.52	3.752
me	3	12,096.77	3.607
for	4	16,129.03	3.256
i	4	16,129.03	3.057
that	5	20,161.29	2.060
no	2	8,064.52	1.835
tae	8	32,258.06	1.188
in	2	8,064.52	1.114
this	2	8,064.52	0.881
be	2	8,064.52	0.386
she	2	8,064.52	0.375
her	2	8,064.52	0.359
a	6	24,193.55	0.247
o	6	24,193.55	0.144
is	2	8,064.52	0.133
wi	2	8,064.52	0.011