A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McCabe, Alan

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 251
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 138
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.819
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, a, tae, o, is, ma, me, aw, whan,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 73 - Unsteek the Door o Ma Hert
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (162 words)
Lallans 73 - Whan the wind blaws
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (89 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
gane3 11,952.1924.867
whitna2 7,968.1321.345
whan5 19,920.3219.440
blaws2 7,968.1318.853
mirk2 7,968.1316.624
ma7 27,888.4514.824
chynge2 7,968.1313.915
is8 31,872.5113.538
wind2 7,968.1312.729
aw5 19,920.3212.594
sang2 7,968.1311.798
noo4 15,936.2511.113
me5 19,920.3210.002
hert2 7,968.139.988
day4 15,936.259.933
licht2 7,968.139.355
that's2 7,968.139.306
body2 7,968.139.197
cannae2 7,968.138.556
an15 59,760.968.482
maun2 7,968.137.515
left2 7,968.137.160
thing2 7,968.136.857
the23 91,633.474.508
whit2 7,968.132.346
tae9 35,856.572.056
bit2 7,968.131.827
fae2 7,968.131.663
a11 43,824.701.604
o8 31,872.511.337
on2 7,968.130.118
that2 7,968.130.100