A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Porter, Steve

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 241
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 149
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.617
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, wi, an, o, windae, s, ye, thair, that,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 74 - Gone Wi The Windae
Lallans Magazine (2009-07) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (241 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
calum3 12,448.1343.546
windae5 20,746.8936.342
luikt2 8,298.7629.690
wife3 12,448.1317.498
thair4 16,597.5115.745
rock2 8,298.7615.493
view2 8,298.7614.236
aa4 16,597.5110.511
wi7 29,045.648.767
hiv2 8,298.768.479
throu2 8,298.768.059
left2 8,298.767.307
thon2 8,298.766.140
got2 8,298.765.242
awa2 8,298.764.358
a13 53,941.914.148
had2 8,298.763.977
ye4 16,597.513.625
the20 82,987.552.397
s4 16,597.511.954
fae2 8,298.761.721
skellet2 8,298.76nan
his3 12,448.131.450
tae3 12,448.131.081
that4 16,597.510.928
he3 12,448.130.350
wis3 12,448.130.120
and2 8,298.760.088
it3 12,448.130.008
an6 24,896.270.002
o5 20,746.890.001