Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Philp, George

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 368
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 227
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.621
Tagged as ABN (Aberdeen) dialect.
Top ten most common words - an, the, i, o, ma, ye, a, in, wi, and,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 67 - Thochts anent Sangschaw and Penny Wheep
Lallans Magazine (2005-09-01 ) in Doric dialect (ABN), categorised as poetry (368 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
wheep	3	8,152.17	38.157
sangschaw	3	8,152.17	35.503
beuks	3	8,152.17	28.895
i	14	38,043.48	28.692
beikin	2	5,434.78	27.986
penny	3	8,152.17	23.933
ma	11	29,891.30	23.624
an	25	67,934.78	18.601
macdiarmid	2	5,434.78	17.564
intil	3	8,152.17	14.342
bairn	2	5,434.78	8.517
licht	2	5,434.78	7.947
its	3	8,152.17	6.537
thir	2	5,434.78	6.399
fair	2	5,434.78	6.320
yon	2	5,434.78	6.181
til	2	5,434.78	4.925
o	14	38,043.48	4.466
frae	3	8,152.17	4.137
come	2	5,434.78	4.076
tae	3	8,152.17	4.020
a	5	13,586.96	3.969
ye	5	13,586.96	3.249
had	2	5,434.78	2.608
by	2	5,434.78	2.176
scots	3	8,152.17	1.740
aa	2	5,434.78	1.674
rothiemurchus	2	5,434.78	nan
wi	5	13,586.96	1.507
mair	2	5,434.78	1.419
on	4	10,869.57	1.094
wis	2	5,434.78	0.981
and	4	10,869.57	0.812
nae	2	5,434.78	0.687
the	23	62,500.00	0.120
in	5	13,586.96	0.100
that	4	10,869.57	0.037