A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McLachlan, Jack

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 341
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 179
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.905
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, tae, an, glessheids, that, in, cauld, a, wi,

List of texts in corpus

Glessheids maun wale guid neebors tae thole the dreich Scottish climate
University of Maine (2019-05-08) in Central (Ceres) dialect (SEC), categorised as prose (341 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
climates3 8,797.6543.758
maiks3 8,797.6541.527
climate3 8,797.6531.692
thole4 11,730.2130.128
social4 11,730.2127.613
species3 8,797.6526.969
glessheids8 23,460.41nan
cauld6 17,595.3134.598
dreich3 8,797.6523.888
caulder2 5,865.1021.358
airts3 8,797.6519.702
team2 5,865.1014.405
fand2 5,865.1013.460
aiberdeen2 5,865.1012.995
unco2 5,865.1012.620
dr2 5,865.1012.100
scottish3 8,797.6510.770
about2 5,865.109.610
lat2 5,865.109.168
frae4 11,730.217.780
bi3 8,797.657.012
the31 90,909.095.885
baith2 5,865.105.576
ae3 8,797.655.196
new2 5,865.104.751
gin2 5,865.104.729
o13 38,123.174.120
mair3 8,797.654.114
thair2 5,865.103.982
stressfu2 5,865.10nan
colour2 5,865.1012.580
thaim2 5,865.103.948
guid2 5,865.103.640
hae3 8,797.653.505
wi6 17,595.313.404
ither2 5,865.103.350
are2 5,865.103.072
that7 20,527.863.017
richt2 5,865.102.984
a6 17,595.311.929
they3 8,797.651.561
it2 5,865.101.244
an12 35,190.621.089
wis2 5,865.100.706
in7 20,527.860.490
s3 8,797.650.084
at2 5,865.100.017
is2 5,865.100.005
hardiness2 5,865.10nan
lancaster2 5,865.10nan
for2 5,865.100.004
physiologic2 5,865.10nan
tae12 35,190.622.561
varsitie2 5,865.10nan
efter2 5,865.103.413