A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McGibbon, Joe

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 243
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 172
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.413
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, o, ma, i, an, hame, mi, tae, no,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 74 - Draps o Sapie-Bubble
Lallans Magazine (2009-07) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (139 words)

Lallans 73 - Feyther Langshanks Blues
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (104 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
tuppence3 12,345.6840.658
bubbles3 12,345.6837.329
mi4 16,460.9135.994
coff2 8,230.4523.938
pipes2 8,230.4518.037
hame4 16,460.9116.571
drappit2 8,230.4516.311
ma7 28,806.5814.604
lest2 8,230.4514.029
i6 24,691.368.056
gied2 8,230.457.913
wur2 8,230.457.277
mither2 8,230.457.263
anither2 8,230.456.420
juist2 8,230.455.595
no3 12,345.684.582
nae3 12,345.684.215
oan2 8,230.453.794
wee2 8,230.452.506
the9 37,037.042.267
bit2 8,230.451.911
tae3 12,345.681.118
in2 8,230.451.034
o7 28,806.580.728
wi3 12,345.680.658
hip-jynt2 8,230.45nan
her2 8,230.450.386
an5 20,576.130.242
is2 8,230.450.152
a8 32,921.810.108
wis2 8,230.450.096