A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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MacKinnon, Ann

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 556
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 324
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.716
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, tae, and, i, it, o, me, he, fur,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 70 - Five Poems
Lallans Magazine (2007-06 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (556 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
killt3 5,395.6826.274
naething4 7,194.2425.020
feather2 3,597.1222.573
economically2 3,597.1222.573
brent2 3,597.1220.679
active2 3,597.1217.907
burds2 3,597.1216.638
flees2 3,597.1216.292
village2 3,597.1212.599
and12 21,582.7311.916
me8 14,388.4911.734
cawed2 3,597.1211.343
fur7 12,589.9311.039
i10 17,985.619.088
poem2 3,597.128.894
i'm2 3,597.128.681
naebody2 3,597.127.550
nae6 10,791.377.181
bairn2 3,597.126.923
read2 3,597.126.540
goat2 3,597.126.310
hame3 5,395.686.274
watter2 3,597.125.811
taen2 3,597.125.504
a26 46,762.595.021
need2 3,597.124.921
till2 3,597.124.809
but6 10,791.374.601
wee4 7,194.244.212
life2 3,597.123.830
had3 5,395.683.778
his7 12,589.933.416
it's2 3,597.123.021
noo3 5,395.683.006
cam2 3,597.122.994
ony2 3,597.122.990
her6 10,791.372.658
then2 3,597.122.095
ower3 5,395.681.786
he8 14,388.491.706
are2 3,597.121.642
wis3 5,395.681.455
oan2 3,597.121.437
they4 7,194.241.253
aye2 3,597.121.227
fae3 5,395.681.129
conshie2 3,597.12nan
wi2 3,597.121.396
by2 3,597.121.071
couardie2 3,597.12nan
the24 43,165.472.396
ma4 7,194.241.002
in6 10,791.370.939
intae2 3,597.120.916
aboot3 5,395.680.874
it9 16,187.050.846
you2 3,597.120.790
on2 3,597.120.717
as2 3,597.120.688
day2 3,597.120.646
aa2 3,597.120.636
frae2 3,597.120.634
or3 5,395.680.620
o9 16,187.050.596
at5 8,992.810.513
tae14 25,179.860.342
aw2 3,597.120.312
hae2 3,597.120.306
no2 3,597.120.195
like2 3,597.120.191
oot3 5,395.680.176
him2 3,597.120.168
is4 7,194.240.091
that6 10,791.370.046
we2 3,597.120.027
up2 3,597.120.010
this2 3,597.120.008