A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Grubb, Adrian

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 371
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 170
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.182
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, wis, tae, it, and, me, ma, then, jump,

List of texts in corpus

Bungee
Scots Hoose (2020) in Central (Kirkcaldy) dialect (SEC), categorised as prose (371 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
jump5 13,477.0951.749
awbudy3 8,086.2543.166
harness3 8,086.2536.211
feart4 10,781.6725.969
a31 83,557.9525.883
cord2 5,390.8422.778
pad2 5,390.8422.778
then6 16,172.5121.828
didny2 5,390.8421.346
launch2 5,390.8420.964
gonnae3 8,086.2520.322
wis15 40,431.2719.347
cos3 8,086.2518.200
seconds2 5,390.8417.235
group3 8,086.2517.079
went4 10,781.6717.077
whin3 8,086.2516.710
me8 21,563.3416.676
rope2 5,390.8416.581
faw2 5,390.8415.261
eh3 8,086.2514.215
really3 8,086.2514.008
dain2 5,390.8413.121
ma8 21,563.3412.822
want3 8,086.2511.360
er2 5,390.8411.076
dae4 10,781.6710.555
fir3 8,086.259.986
looked2 5,390.849.004
and8 21,563.347.774
got3 8,086.257.718
was3 8,086.257.614
it11 29,649.607.117
last2 5,390.845.806
up5 13,477.095.468
tae15 40,431.275.112
made2 5,390.844.631
mind2 5,390.844.535
wiz2 5,390.844.245
pit2 5,390.843.941
first2 5,390.843.811
wee3 8,086.253.680
but4 10,781.673.022
said2 5,390.842.522
on5 13,477.092.436
jist2 5,390.842.313
mair2 5,390.841.401
back2 5,390.841.391
they3 8,086.251.313
doon2 5,390.841.263
whit2 5,390.841.247
aw2 5,390.841.016
there2 5,390.840.868
that5 13,477.090.446
the19 51,212.940.345
we2 5,390.840.174
oot2 5,390.840.114
in5 13,477.090.112
at2 5,390.840.063
as2 5,390.840.031
ye2 5,390.840.000