A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Fyall, Aitken

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 653
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 347
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.882
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, a, tae, o, i, wi, s, he, whit,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck
Lallans Magazine (2009-07-01) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (393 words)

Lallans 58 - The Wa-Ganging o the Meinister
Lallans Magazine (2001-03-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (260 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
losh8 12,251.1593.378
week8 12,251.1552.854
dis8 12,251.1534.168
juist8 12,251.1528.196
et4 6,125.5724.863
dae8 12,251.1522.887
yir4 6,125.5720.372
ivery3 4,594.1818.551
cutty2 3,062.7918.357
whit9 13,782.5418.128
he's3 4,594.1817.742
gaen3 4,594.1817.742
shud2 3,062.7914.845
gars2 3,062.7914.100
faith2 3,062.7911.975
yet3 4,594.1811.589
laird2 3,062.799.867
shair2 3,062.799.719
ve4 6,125.579.442
hiv3 4,594.189.383
ilk2 3,062.798.153
man4 6,125.577.762
noo5 7,656.977.698
claes2 3,062.797.151
i10 15,313.946.725
still3 4,594.185.999
braw2 3,062.795.910
canna2 3,062.795.450
wark2 3,062.795.001
wis2 3,062.794.499
wi10 15,313.944.185
s10 15,313.944.050
frae4 6,125.573.846
it3 4,594.183.808
are3 4,594.183.352
oor3 4,594.182.885
jist3 4,594.182.791
he10 15,313.942.720
aw4 6,125.572.625
ma6 9,188.362.605
gin2 3,062.792.565
mak2 3,062.792.532
hame2 3,062.792.387
bit4 6,125.572.314
there4 6,125.572.304
d3 4,594.182.214
muckle2 3,062.792.180
in6 9,188.362.040
than2 3,062.791.653
and2 3,062.791.622
ye6 9,188.361.462
his6 9,188.361.190
richt2 3,062.791.165
as6 9,188.360.900
ay2 3,062.790.852
is6 9,188.360.844
fur3 4,594.180.827
be5 7,656.970.774
sae2 3,062.790.736
see2 3,062.790.686
the43 65,849.920.665
her2 3,062.790.640
ae2 3,062.790.632
mair2 3,062.790.288
back2 3,062.790.283
a17 26,033.690.253
doon2 3,062.790.217
ower2 3,062.790.181
o12 18,376.720.162
an18 27,565.080.124
up2 3,062.790.107
this2 3,062.790.106
tae15 22,970.900.076
but3 4,594.180.072
we3 4,594.180.065
that7 10,719.750.048
nae2 3,062.790.011