A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Bruce, Meg

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 179
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 105
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.705
Tagged as MNA (Mid Northern A) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, bit, it, in, o, its, am, so, ah, thit,

List of texts in corpus


Facebook (2013-10-25) in Doric (Buckie) dialect (MNA), categorised as social (179 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
contraption3 16,759.7845.417
bit8 44,692.7430.982
am4 22,346.3727.628
a19 106,145.2522.469
type2 11,173.1819.932
es2 11,173.1817.894
thit3 16,759.7817.216
its4 22,346.3716.033
fecht2 11,173.1814.286
doric2 11,173.1813.667
it's3 16,759.7812.808
sair2 11,173.1811.039
so3 16,759.7811.018
dinna2 11,173.188.991
mak2 11,173.186.918
ain2 11,173.185.866
fit2 11,173.185.843
richt2 11,173.185.160
it6 33,519.554.878
jist2 11,173.184.588
intae2 11,173.184.201
ye3 16,759.782.771
ah3 16,759.782.727
ma2 11,173.181.443
in5 27,932.961.437
tae2 11,173.181.096
an3 16,759.780.657
is2 11,173.180.590
and2 11,173.180.475
o5 27,932.960.421