A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McCabe, Alan

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 251
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 138
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.819
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, a, tae, o, is, ma, me, aw, whan,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 73 - Unsteek the Door o Ma Hert
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (162 words)
Lallans 73 - Whan the wind blaws
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (89 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
gane3 11,952.1925.026
whitna2 7,968.1321.288
whan5 19,920.3219.432
blaws2 7,968.1318.796
mirk2 7,968.1316.649
ma7 27,888.4514.767
chynge2 7,968.1313.858
is8 31,872.5113.530
wind2 7,968.1312.672
aw5 19,920.3212.492
sang2 7,968.1311.813
noo4 15,936.2511.204
me5 19,920.3210.030
hert2 7,968.139.933
day4 15,936.259.901
licht2 7,968.139.400
that's2 7,968.139.250
body2 7,968.139.166
cannae2 7,968.138.623
an15 59,760.968.569
maun2 7,968.137.491
left2 7,968.137.147
thing2 7,968.136.987
the23 91,633.474.356
whit2 7,968.132.318
tae9 35,856.572.065
bit2 7,968.131.819
fae2 7,968.131.644
a11 43,824.701.642
o8 31,872.511.350
on2 7,968.130.121
that2 7,968.130.098