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 5,395.6826.200
naething4 7,194.2424.987
economically2 3,597.1222.524
feather2 3,597.1222.524
brent2 3,597.1220.630
active2 3,597.1217.617
burds2 3,597.1216.590
flees2 3,597.1216.590
village2 3,597.1212.887
and12 21,582.7311.684
cawed2 3,597.1211.437
me8 14,388.4911.344
fur7 12,589.9311.045
poem2 3,597.128.846
i10 17,985.618.832
i'm2 3,597.128.612
naebody2 3,597.127.554
nae6 10,791.377.199
bairn2 3,597.126.920
read2 3,597.126.674
hame3 5,395.686.295
goat2 3,597.126.265
watter2 3,597.125.818
taen2 3,597.125.488
a26 46,762.595.070
till2 3,597.124.900
need2 3,597.124.840
but6 10,791.374.542
wee4 7,194.244.214
had3 5,395.683.885
life2 3,597.123.821
his7 12,589.933.466
ony2 3,597.123.096
noo3 5,395.683.038
it's2 3,597.122.986
cam2 3,597.122.959
her6 10,791.372.652
the24 43,165.472.514
then2 3,597.122.119
ower3 5,395.681.789
couardie2 3,597.12nan
he8 14,388.491.755
are2 3,597.121.565
wis3 5,395.681.501
oan2 3,597.121.316
conshie2 3,597.12nan
wi2 3,597.121.376
aye2 3,597.121.306
they4 7,194.241.271
by2 3,597.121.103
fae3 5,395.681.071
in6 10,791.370.928
aboot3 5,395.680.892
intae2 3,597.120.874
ma4 7,194.240.834
it9 16,187.050.806
aa2 3,597.120.720
you2 3,597.120.708
on2 3,597.120.689
as2 3,597.120.671
or3 5,395.680.666
frae2 3,597.120.665
day2 3,597.120.622
o9 16,187.050.565
at5 8,992.810.519
tae14 25,179.860.362
hae2 3,597.120.327
aw2 3,597.120.280
no2 3,597.120.175
like2 3,597.120.172
oot3 5,395.680.171
him2 3,597.120.169
is4 7,194.240.091
that6 10,791.370.047
we2 3,597.120.019
up2 3,597.120.008
this2 3,597.120.007