A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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wee-windaes

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 291
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 170
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.712
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, scots, in, a, o, an, wi, tae, it, is,

List of texts in corpus

Whit is Scots?
wee-windaes.nls.uk (2018-06-19) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (291 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
scots13 44,673.5443.376
throu4 13,745.7020.016
literary2 6,872.8516.989
english4 13,745.7015.881
robert2 6,872.8514.034
modren2 6,872.8512.636
gaelic3 10,309.2812.600
european2 6,872.8512.534
leids2 6,872.859.147
cuid2 6,872.858.856
in12 41,237.118.624
wirds2 6,872.857.850
bi3 10,309.287.827
fir2 6,872.856.055
leid2 6,872.856.021
micht2 6,872.855.383
day3 10,309.285.154
wi6 20,618.564.608
its2 6,872.853.785
be4 13,745.702.989
o10 34,364.262.291
as4 13,745.702.080
mair2 6,872.852.048
is4 13,745.702.017
or2 6,872.850.896
an10 34,364.260.858
a11 37,800.690.680
it5 17,182.130.626
and3 10,309.280.491
that4 13,745.700.401
wis2 6,872.850.352
tae5 17,182.130.264
on2 6,872.850.024
the17 58,419.240.000