A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Donaldson, Gordon

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 773
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 392
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.972
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, a, an, it, was, on, that, ah, ti,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 90 - Echty-Echt
Lallans Magazine (2017-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (521 words)
Lallans 82 - Belike a Mishanter
Lallans Magazine (2013-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (252 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
was18 23,285.9080.751
had10 12,936.6127.734
ti10 12,936.6124.984
doun6 7,761.9724.066
brig4 5,174.6423.565
cleuch2 2,587.3220.440
reik2 2,587.3219.820
passengers2 2,587.3219.284
caur3 3,880.9819.184
crossin2 2,587.3218.813
mishanter2 2,587.3218.813
til6 7,761.9718.552
rey2 2,587.3218.391
display2 2,587.3216.773
san2 2,587.3215.832
russian2 2,587.3215.250
player2 2,587.3215.073
setterday2 2,587.3214.155
fuit2 2,587.3213.643
owre3 3,880.9812.473
hunners2 2,587.3211.040
lichts2 2,587.3210.635
jist6 7,761.9710.314
o30 38,809.8310.257
on13 16,817.599.779
it20 25,873.229.680
furst2 2,587.329.630
bi5 6,468.318.960
wud2 2,587.328.640
mynd2 2,587.328.274
cud3 3,880.988.069
aa6 7,761.978.045
reid2 2,587.327.968
days3 3,880.986.779
five2 2,587.326.539
himsel2 2,587.326.383
naebody2 2,587.326.300
ah11 14,230.276.293
white2 2,587.326.283
were4 5,174.645.946
afore4 5,174.645.721
anither3 3,880.985.645
intil2 2,587.325.247
air2 2,587.324.939
the60 77,619.664.850
year3 3,880.984.647
luis2 2,587.32nan
cam3 3,880.984.820
heard2 2,587.324.261
near2 2,587.324.209
ane3 3,880.983.886
throu2 2,587.323.805
but7 9,055.633.788
maun2 2,587.323.499
gey2 2,587.323.414
thing2 2,587.323.068
gaed2 2,587.322.794
tell2 2,587.322.711
in7 9,055.632.492
syne2 2,587.322.460
aye3 3,880.982.249
we6 7,761.972.237
that12 15,523.932.193
as2 2,587.321.975
again2 2,587.321.914
no4 5,174.641.480
ye2 2,587.321.408
been3 3,880.981.323
be2 2,587.321.134
ither2 2,587.321.087
wee3 3,880.980.945
oot5 6,468.310.799
or4 5,174.640.756
get2 2,587.320.743
hae3 3,880.980.679
and7 9,055.630.612
oor2 2,587.320.588
fowk2 2,587.320.536
his6 7,761.970.519
lima2 2,587.32nan
he5 6,468.310.492
there3 3,880.980.442
they2 2,587.320.367
this2 2,587.320.349
their2 2,587.320.326
a25 32,341.530.238
at4 5,174.640.191
frae2 2,587.320.165
an21 27,166.880.093
ma3 3,880.980.046
aboot2 2,587.320.038
for4 5,174.640.029
wi6 7,761.970.010