A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lang, Charles

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 239
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 157
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.522
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, is, it, tae, will, fur, ae, be, mora,

List of texts in corpus

nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday
Association for Scottish Literature (2022-07-29 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (239 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
night's2 8,368.2029.718
buns2 8,368.2023.532
maybe3 12,552.3021.605
i'll3 12,552.3021.259
soup2 8,368.2018.104
will4 16,736.4016.286
cross2 8,368.2014.671
three3 12,552.3013.583
tuesday2 8,368.2013.347
ur2 8,368.2011.387
ae4 16,736.4011.373
take2 8,368.2011.016
n2 8,368.208.772
fur4 16,736.408.213
need2 8,368.207.936
is6 25,104.607.873
days2 8,368.207.319
mora3 12,552.30nan
hot2 8,368.2017.103
dae2 8,368.204.379
oan2 8,368.203.845
by2 8,368.203.510
it6 25,104.602.726
be3 12,552.301.901
aboot2 8,368.201.574
the18 75,313.811.172
in2 8,368.200.974
this2 8,368.200.967
oot2 8,368.200.766
a9 37,656.900.540
her2 8,368.200.412
ye2 8,368.200.341
i2 8,368.200.210
tae6 25,104.600.149
at2 8,368.200.132
that2 8,368.200.057