A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lang, Charles

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 239
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 157
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.522
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, is, it, tae, will, fur, ae, be, mora,

List of texts in corpus

nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday
Association for Scottish Literature (2022-07-29 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (239 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
night's2 8,368.2029.724
buns2 8,368.2023.539
maybe3 12,552.3021.614
i'll3 12,552.3021.269
soup2 8,368.2018.110
will4 16,736.4016.298
cross2 8,368.2014.678
three3 12,552.3013.592
tuesday2 8,368.2013.354
ur2 8,368.2011.292
ae4 16,736.4011.272
take2 8,368.2010.985
n2 8,368.208.768
fur4 16,736.408.199
need2 8,368.207.942
is6 25,104.607.882
days2 8,368.207.326
mora3 12,552.30nan
hot2 8,368.2017.109
dae2 8,368.204.365
oan2 8,368.203.807
by2 8,368.203.509
it6 25,104.602.722
be3 12,552.301.900
aboot2 8,368.201.574
the18 75,313.811.170
in2 8,368.200.972
this2 8,368.200.969
oot2 8,368.200.765
a9 37,656.900.540
her2 8,368.200.414
ye2 8,368.200.337
i2 8,368.200.211
tae6 25,104.600.150
at2 8,368.200.132
that2 8,368.200.058