Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Templeton, Sheila

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 347
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 226
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.535
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, yer, ye, tae, that, o, in, wis, an,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - La Bella Rebelle
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (211 words)
Lallans 73 - Lairnin About Luve
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (136 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
yer	9	25,936.60	31.534
speerit	2	5,763.69	19.265
jyle	2	5,763.69	18.464
anne	2	5,763.69	17.363
pictur	2	5,763.69	16.971
luve	2	5,763.69	14.345
fan	3	8,645.53	14.110
kitchen	2	5,763.69	11.875
ye	8	23,054.76	11.123
ask	2	5,763.69	10.767
bonnie	2	5,763.69	9.436
himsel	2	5,763.69	9.419
naebody	2	5,763.69	9.349
times	2	5,763.69	7.916
side	2	5,763.69	6.791
didnae	2	5,763.69	6.560
auld	3	8,645.53	6.169
sic	2	5,763.69	6.072
even	2	5,763.69	4.710
time	3	8,645.53	4.698
cam	2	5,763.69	4.514
man	2	5,763.69	3.669
ain	2	5,763.69	3.553
were	2	5,763.69	3.250
that	7	20,172.91	2.901
jist	2	5,763.69	2.508
fowk	2	5,763.69	2.456
or	3	8,645.53	2.143
an	5	14,409.22	1.993
day	2	5,763.69	1.695
but	3	8,645.53	1.473
wis	6	17,291.07	1.452
wi	4	11,527.38	0.669
they	2	5,763.69	0.285
at	3	8,645.53	0.247
o	6	17,291.07	0.196
the	19	54,755.04	0.077
in	6	17,291.07	0.064
be	2	5,763.69	0.035
tae	7	20,172.91	0.025
as	2	5,763.69	0.006
a	10	28,818.44	0.003
it	4	11,527.38	0.003
i	2	5,763.69	0.002
for	2	5,763.69	0.001
his	2	5,763.69	0.000
he	3	8,645.53	0.000