A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McCahon, Aileen

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 116
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 73
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.589
Tagged as GUL (General Ulster) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, that, o, me, wus, wee, fur, way, rid,

List of texts in corpus

Yarns 3 - Rid Button
Ulster-Scots Community Network (2024-08-22) in Ulster (Ulster) dialect (GUL), categorised as poetry (116 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
wus4 34,482.7631.886
a16 137,931.0325.787
button2 17,241.3822.915
furst2 17,241.3816.914
rid2 17,241.3815.398
very2 17,241.3813.764
way2 17,241.3813.257
me4 34,482.7611.918
wee3 25,862.079.636
whan2 17,241.387.238
that4 34,482.764.365
bit2 17,241.384.241
fur2 17,241.384.203
o4 34,482.760.912
tae2 17,241.380.107
the6 51,724.140.082