Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Jamie, Kathleen

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 381
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 247
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.543
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, they, tae, aw, their, ye, will, a, whaur,

List of texts in corpus

Eemis Stane 1 - Grey Feather
Eemis Stane (2022-05-06 ) in Central dialect (SEC), categorised as poetry (53 words)
Eemis Stane 1 - Pine Wid
Eemis Stane (2022-05-06 ) in Central dialect (SEC), categorised as poetry (62 words)
Eemis Stane 1 - Whimbrel
Eemis Stane (2022-05-06 ) in Central dialect (SEC), categorised as prose (266 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
aix	2	5,249.34	27.903
wind	3	7,874.02	19.000
nane	3	7,874.02	17.401
journey	2	5,249.34	16.531
risin	2	5,249.34	15.212
abune	2	5,249.34	14.803
whaur	4	10,498.69	14.177
thegither	3	7,874.02	13.259
will	4	10,498.69	12.891
mibbe	2	5,249.34	12.105
their	5	13,123.36	11.779
thochts	2	5,249.34	11.116
grey	2	5,249.34	11.086
haudin	2	5,249.34	10.690
aw	5	13,123.36	9.001
aye	4	10,498.69	8.905
hame	3	7,874.02	8.264
come	3	7,874.02	8.097
they	6	15,748.03	7.800
masel	2	5,249.34	7.649
day	4	10,498.69	7.073
folk	2	5,249.34	6.598
a	4	10,498.69	6.284
alang	2	5,249.34	6.120
left	2	5,249.34	5.622
the	33	86,614.17	5.060
ye	5	13,123.36	3.042
were	2	5,249.34	2.935
we	4	10,498.69	2.740
are	2	5,249.34	2.723
if	2	5,249.34	2.153
in	3	7,874.02	1.809
doon	2	5,249.34	1.200
ower	2	5,249.34	1.127
hae	2	5,249.34	0.991
like	2	5,249.34	0.796
and	4	10,498.69	0.753
tae	6	15,748.03	0.657
it	3	7,874.02	0.556
wi	4	10,498.69	0.416
or	2	5,249.34	0.372
i	3	7,874.02	0.247
that	3	7,874.02	0.168
is	3	7,874.02	0.166
but	2	5,249.34	0.165
at	2	5,249.34	0.087
on	2	5,249.34	0.058
as	2	5,249.34	0.051
his	2	5,249.34	0.016
for	2	5,249.34	0.009
an	10	26,246.72	0.004
be	2	5,249.34	0.004