A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McBeath, Lorraine

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 129
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 87
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.483
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - she, i, a, tae, and, the, she's, me, her, new,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - The New Quine at School
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (129 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
she's3 23,255.8129.557
gings2 15,503.8822.869
she7 54,263.5720.817
quine2 15,503.8815.928
gan2 15,503.8815.169
school2 15,503.8814.734
i6 46,511.6314.636
i'm2 15,503.8814.413
new2 15,503.888.333
me3 23,255.816.803
and4 31,007.756.166
her3 23,255.814.444
like2 15,503.883.837
the4 31,007.752.032
tae5 38,759.691.482
at2 15,503.881.194
wi2 15,503.880.854
an2 15,503.880.628
a5 38,759.690.364
in2 15,503.880.000