A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Thom, Williamina

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 352
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 180
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.956
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, tae, her, a, an, o, wis, aw, had, she,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 75 - Oor Tibby Pagan
Lallans Magazine (2009-12-01) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as weans (352 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
tibby4 11,363.6447.957
her15 42,613.6437.693
brig4 11,363.6430.157
ewes2 5,681.8228.170
pagan2 5,681.8223.616
lass3 8,522.7321.810
yowes2 5,681.8218.412
howff2 5,681.8217.451
weel-kent2 5,681.8216.451
had5 14,204.5514.690
luikin2 5,681.8213.488
hoose4 11,363.6413.386
aw6 17,045.4513.238
cross2 5,681.8213.237
yince2 5,681.8212.910
dad2 5,681.8212.141
caa2 5,681.8211.996
wid4 11,363.6411.603
stane2 5,681.8211.347
whaur3 8,522.739.426
later2 5,681.829.368
still3 8,522.739.287
wheen2 5,681.828.533
watter2 5,681.827.531
were3 8,522.736.855
tae15 42,613.645.904
roon2 5,681.825.824
aye3 8,522.735.789
oor3 8,522.735.748
noo3 8,522.735.137
made2 5,681.824.821
pit2 5,681.824.125
she5 14,204.553.777
doon3 8,522.733.770
efter2 5,681.823.298
on5 14,204.552.741
fae3 8,522.732.689
wee2 5,681.821.473
wis6 17,045.451.390
ower2 5,681.821.318
hae2 5,681.821.208
nae2 5,681.820.775
be3 8,522.730.707
aboot2 5,681.820.692
a13 36,931.820.669
ye3 8,522.730.546
an11 31,250.000.462
in4 11,363.640.449
o9 25,568.180.411
it3 8,522.730.366
is3 8,522.730.286
up2 5,681.820.275
we2 5,681.820.235
the22 62,500.000.115
that3 8,522.730.068
wi3 8,522.730.053
as2 5,681.820.010