A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McClure, Alan

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 108
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 82
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.317
Tagged as SWE (South West (Galloway)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, tae, ah, their, pass, by, me, were, sae,

List of texts in corpus

A poem
Twitter (2022-01-05) in Central (Galloway) dialect (SWE), categorised as poetry (108 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
pass2 18,518.5217.580
wan2 18,518.5210.253
were2 18,518.527.377
by2 18,518.526.254
sae2 18,518.526.246
them2 18,518.526.169
their2 18,518.525.955
ah3 27,777.785.019
me2 18,518.523.757
this2 18,518.523.153
they2 18,518.523.108
tae5 46,296.302.386
an5 46,296.301.475
o2 18,518.520.026
the6 55,555.560.010