Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Templeton, Sheila

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 347
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 226
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.535
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, yer, ye, tae, that, o, in, wis, an,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - La Bella Rebelle
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (211 words)
Lallans 73 - Lairnin About Luve
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (136 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
yer	9	25,936.60	31.525
speerit	2	5,763.69	19.271
jyle	2	5,763.69	18.471
anne	2	5,763.69	17.370
pictur	2	5,763.69	16.978
luve	2	5,763.69	14.351
fan	3	8,645.53	14.119
kitchen	2	5,763.69	11.881
ye	8	23,054.76	11.090
ask	2	5,763.69	10.773
bonnie	2	5,763.69	9.443
himsel	2	5,763.69	9.407
naebody	2	5,763.69	9.355
times	2	5,763.69	7.922
side	2	5,763.69	6.797
didnae	2	5,763.69	6.558
auld	3	8,645.53	6.170
sic	2	5,763.69	6.078
even	2	5,763.69	4.716
time	3	8,645.53	4.705
cam	2	5,763.69	4.520
man	2	5,763.69	3.650
ain	2	5,763.69	3.558
were	2	5,763.69	3.252
that	7	20,172.91	2.896
jist	2	5,763.69	2.503
fowk	2	5,763.69	2.461
or	3	8,645.53	2.148
an	5	14,409.22	1.987
day	2	5,763.69	1.697
but	3	8,645.53	1.477
wis	6	17,291.07	1.460
wi	4	11,527.38	0.670
they	2	5,763.69	0.281
at	3	8,645.53	0.246
o	6	17,291.07	0.192
the	19	54,755.04	0.078
in	6	17,291.07	0.064
be	2	5,763.69	0.035
tae	7	20,172.91	0.025
as	2	5,763.69	0.006
it	4	11,527.38	0.003
a	10	28,818.44	0.003
i	2	5,763.69	0.002
for	2	5,763.69	0.002
his	2	5,763.69	0.000
he	3	8,645.53	0.000