A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Keaveney, Marcus

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 337
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 224
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.504
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, an, ah, a, in, and, ma, tha, ben,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 102 - Bein a Wid Tink
Lallans Magazine (2023-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (299 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
jyst3 8,902.0836.116
lief2 5,934.7226.669
ben4 11,869.4423.248
brainches2 5,934.7221.058
tree3 8,902.0817.420
reek2 5,934.7216.674
tha5 14,836.8014.774
airms2 5,934.7211.508
ah8 23,738.8711.361
its4 11,869.4411.281
green2 5,934.729.586
ma6 17,804.158.281
and7 20,771.516.579
yon2 5,934.726.526
sae3 8,902.085.487
me4 11,869.444.697
liefs3 8,902.08nan
hear2 5,934.727.378
tae3 8,902.083.249
fur3 8,902.083.156
fae3 8,902.082.946
auld2 5,934.722.919
o11 32,640.952.031
this3 8,902.081.648
ower2 5,934.721.422
a7 20,771.510.970
in7 20,771.510.531
as3 8,902.080.372
the22 65,281.900.330
but2 5,934.720.314
wi2 5,934.720.116
an8 23,738.870.056
at2 5,934.720.013
grawin2 5,934.72nan
oik2 5,934.72nan