A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mackie, Caroline

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 323
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 164
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.97
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - ah, m, the, it, noo, an, a, bit, be, aa,

List of texts in corpus

Change o Life
Facebook (2022-05-30) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as social (323 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
ah26 80,495.3692.990
m12 37,151.7059.714
mah5 15,479.8844.727
rules4 12,383.9035.455
noo8 24,767.8029.009
hoo4 12,383.9022.502
niver4 12,383.9021.137
mibbes2 6,191.9519.128
shid2 6,191.9518.570
aa6 18,575.8516.665
fir4 12,383.9016.536
daein3 9,287.9315.985
ve4 12,383.9014.987
change2 6,191.9514.379
bit6 18,575.8513.475
follaein2 6,191.9513.425
true2 6,191.9511.707
long2 6,191.9511.252
take2 6,191.9510.479
jist4 12,383.909.951
no5 15,479.889.555
let2 6,191.957.294
hiv2 6,191.957.276
look2 6,191.957.213
be6 18,575.856.974
better2 6,191.956.503
life2 6,191.955.737
been3 9,287.934.942
mair3 9,287.934.383
the11 34,055.734.045
ll2 6,191.953.613
it8 24,767.803.582
dae2 6,191.953.399
ken2 6,191.953.165
us2 6,191.953.160
if2 6,191.952.652
sae2 6,191.952.514
see2 6,191.952.456
in2 6,191.952.408
d2 6,191.952.312
they3 9,287.931.758
we3 9,287.931.665
tae4 12,383.901.493
o4 12,383.901.265
there2 6,191.951.187
s4 12,383.900.903
me2 6,191.950.727
a7 21,671.830.711
wis2 6,191.950.589
is3 9,287.930.443
an7 21,671.830.213
ye2 6,191.950.041