A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mackie, Caroline

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 323
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 164
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.97
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - ah, m, the, it, noo, an, a, bit, be, aa,

List of texts in corpus

Change o Life
Facebook (2022-05-30) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as social (323 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
ah26 80,495.3693.658
m12 37,151.7059.585
mah5 15,479.8844.870
rules4 12,383.9035.570
noo8 24,767.8028.817
hoo4 12,383.9022.275
niver4 12,383.9021.029
mibbes2 6,191.9519.185
shid2 6,191.9518.627
fir4 12,383.9016.621
aa6 18,575.8516.514
daein3 9,287.9316.023
ve4 12,383.9015.047
change2 6,191.9514.203
bit6 18,575.8513.505
follaein2 6,191.9513.435
true2 6,191.9511.674
long2 6,191.9511.282
take2 6,191.9510.535
jist4 12,383.909.903
no5 15,479.889.613
hiv2 6,191.957.330
let2 6,191.957.312
look2 6,191.957.249
be6 18,575.856.994
better2 6,191.956.498
life2 6,191.955.737
been3 9,287.934.987
mair3 9,287.934.366
the11 34,055.733.905
ll2 6,191.953.607
it8 24,767.803.583
dae2 6,191.953.409
ken2 6,191.953.177
us2 6,191.953.097
if2 6,191.952.643
sae2 6,191.952.513
see2 6,191.952.458
in2 6,191.952.413
d2 6,191.952.288
they3 9,287.931.748
we3 9,287.931.619
tae4 12,383.901.500
o4 12,383.901.278
there2 6,191.951.184
s4 12,383.900.903
a7 21,671.830.736
me2 6,191.950.721
wis2 6,191.950.560
is3 9,287.930.444
an7 21,671.830.226
ye2 6,191.950.038