A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Scott, Colin

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 229
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 154
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.487
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, a, he, we, it, ower, back, o, wis,

List of texts in corpus

nobody remembers the birdman - Empty Nest
Association for Scottish Literature (2022-07-29 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (229 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
shouther2 8,733.6223.710
and10 43,668.1220.913
cloot2 8,733.6218.281
suit2 8,733.6217.555
empty2 8,733.6215.818
we5 21,834.068.968
left2 8,733.627.487
back3 13,100.446.078
haed2 8,733.625.842
ower3 13,100.445.675
thocht2 8,733.625.653
he6 26,200.875.301
so2 8,733.624.915
an2 8,733.623.413
ae2 8,733.623.387
intae2 8,733.623.310
wee2 8,733.622.681
whit2 8,733.622.560
his3 13,100.441.620
the18 78,602.621.571
or2 8,733.621.458
they2 8,733.621.035
tae3 13,100.440.870
in2 8,733.620.830
wi3 13,100.440.808
o3 13,100.440.722
it4 17,467.250.541
a8 34,934.500.242
wis3 13,100.440.183