A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Young, Clive

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 1,143
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 468
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.442
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, scots, an, is, o, it, in, scotland, s,

List of texts in corpus

Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots
The Sair Fecht (19-05-2016) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as blog (1,143 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
scots44 38,495.19134.831
creative13 11,373.58120.107
scotland18 15,748.0364.073
language16 13,998.2559.884
is27 23,622.0533.015
yiss3 2,624.6732.585
forderin3 2,624.6725.483
dialects4 3,499.5624.612
stannerts2 1,749.7823.446
stannert2 1,749.7823.446
dictionaries3 2,624.6721.246
defineetion2 1,749.7820.539
modren4 3,499.5620.047
dictionary3 2,624.6718.426
frae11 9,623.8018.098
tairm2 1,749.7817.743
policie2 1,749.7815.806
historie2 1,749.7815.511
mibbies2 1,749.7815.511
apairt3 2,624.6715.405
awbodie2 1,749.7815.237
naebodie2 1,749.7814.513
introduction2 1,749.7814.299
example3 2,624.6714.220
mair10 8,748.9113.831
thon6 5,249.3413.543
kinna3 2,624.6713.497
media3 2,624.6713.445
linguistic3 2,624.6713.394
but14 12,248.4712.963
writes2 1,749.7812.766
phrase2 1,749.7812.628
write3 2,624.6711.769
scotlan2 1,749.7811.566
aw10 8,748.9111.386
aften3 2,624.6711.297
scottish5 4,374.4511.283
awthin2 1,749.7811.269
en4 3,499.5611.238
writin3 2,624.6710.583
census2 1,749.7810.418
style2 1,749.7810.196
lallans2 1,749.7810.125
monie3 2,624.6710.010
jist7 6,124.239.445
makkit2 1,749.789.361
grammar2 1,749.789.031
education3 2,624.678.577
e4 3,499.568.557
government3 2,624.678.476
future2 1,749.788.107
fur9 7,874.027.988
policy2 1,749.787.870
wey5 4,374.457.620
tung3 2,624.677.618
coorse3 2,624.677.342
a50 43,744.537.321
spoken2 1,749.787.146
braid2 1,749.787.115
re4 3,499.567.105
aifter2 1,749.786.848
airts2 1,749.786.735
cultural2 1,749.786.573
fowk6 5,249.346.562
suin2 1,749.786.495
s17 14,873.146.381
isna2 1,749.785.884
bodie2 1,749.785.820
line2 1,749.785.799
bittie2 1,749.785.737
public2 1,749.785.656
dinna3 2,624.675.541
languages2 1,749.785.462
maks2 1,749.785.369
muckle4 3,499.565.156
forrit2 1,749.784.989
amang2 1,749.784.831
naethin2 1,749.784.740
thing3 2,624.674.681
lat2 1,749.784.651
siller2 1,749.784.509
brocht2 1,749.784.347
tae15 13,123.364.326
faur2 1,749.784.219
for2 1,749.784.195
guid4 3,499.564.110
sair2 1,749.784.108
no7 6,124.233.866
noo5 4,374.453.664
it21 18,372.703.589
whit6 5,249.343.556
ken4 3,499.563.065
wirds2 1,749.783.008
richt4 3,499.562.991
year3 2,624.672.864
ideologie2 1,749.78nan
years2 1,749.782.845
of4 3,499.562.546
fair2 1,749.782.485
ma2 1,749.782.376
they8 6,999.132.370
haes3 2,624.672.255
we8 6,999.132.188
wis7 6,124.232.154
same2 1,749.781.920
see4 3,499.561.919
ain3 2,624.671.912
wha2 1,749.781.853
leid2 1,749.781.587
weel3 2,624.671.579
big2 1,749.781.562
fine2 1,749.781.562
on4 3,499.561.551
nor2 1,749.781.367
bein2 1,749.781.322
there5 4,374.451.188
as10 8,748.911.184
english2 1,749.781.139
new2 1,749.781.075
and5 4,374.451.054
cam2 1,749.780.997
tak2 1,749.780.947
wi6 5,249.340.834
nae5 4,374.450.813
can3 2,624.670.737
ower4 3,499.560.704
sae3 2,624.670.687
then2 1,749.780.461
like2 1,749.780.394
here2 1,749.780.372
bit2 1,749.780.339
its2 1,749.780.289
in20 17,497.810.263
at6 5,249.340.256
hae2 1,749.780.185
aff2 1,749.780.152
the64 55,993.000.104
be5 4,374.450.104
some2 1,749.780.100
this5 4,374.450.088
aye2 1,749.780.087
up5 4,374.450.086
oor2 1,749.780.077
wee2 1,749.780.068
that12 10,498.690.047
aboot3 2,624.670.047
an30 26,246.720.035
or4 3,499.560.023
o23 20,122.480.012
oot5 4,374.450.008