A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Fenton, Janet

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 736
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 353
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.085
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, in, tae, and, he, that, i, o, leid,

List of texts in corpus

A Guid New Year tae yin and a!
Bella Caledonia (04-01-2019) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as blog (736 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
leid10 13,586.9643.065
and21 28,532.6129.197
ain8 10,869.5723.118
he'd4 5,434.7822.405
jail2 2,717.3922.306
yase2 2,717.3920.663
fechter2 2,717.3920.663
ahm2 2,717.3918.232
scrieved2 2,717.3918.232
kiddin2 2,717.3917.270
an5 6,793.4814.416
understand2 2,717.3914.111
english5 6,793.4813.336
stewart2 2,717.3913.007
wa2 2,717.3912.728
didnae4 5,434.7812.726
power2 2,717.3912.305
in24 32,608.7010.625
hoo3 4,076.0910.463
gaen2 2,717.399.804
future2 2,717.399.804
spik2 2,717.399.762
the25 33,967.399.226
spak2 2,717.399.087
i12 16,304.359.061
ony4 5,434.788.957
heard3 4,076.098.844
he15 20,380.438.492
makin2 2,717.397.544
bairns3 4,076.097.385
better3 4,076.097.385
whit6 8,152.177.076
guid4 5,434.786.807
aboot7 9,510.876.722
bonny2 2,717.396.710
when4 5,434.786.476
speak2 2,717.396.280
his10 13,586.965.830
sair2 2,717.395.658
words2 2,717.395.645
frae5 6,793.485.555
that14 19,021.744.971
oan4 5,434.784.887
wiz3 4,076.094.862
oor4 5,434.784.815
pit3 4,076.094.553
ower5 6,793.484.449
can4 5,434.784.417
faither2 2,717.394.299
gied2 2,717.393.911
their4 5,434.783.828
scots6 8,152.173.497
ither3 4,076.093.430
mither2 2,717.393.344
ma7 9,510.873.299
thing2 2,717.393.234
it4 5,434.783.229
thiong2 2,717.39nan
tae23 31,250.003.003
us3 4,076.092.884
are3 4,076.092.853
get3 4,076.092.735
yin2 2,717.392.529
kent2 2,717.392.447
whaur2 2,717.392.410
even2 2,717.392.287
maist2 2,717.392.231
ngugi2 2,717.39nan
think2 2,717.392.202
kenya2 2,717.39nan
or5 6,793.482.186
mak2 2,717.392.184
is8 10,869.572.168
if3 4,076.092.146
me5 6,793.482.112
at2 2,717.392.011
come2 2,717.391.929
language2 2,717.391.895
fur4 5,434.781.743
stewart's2 2,717.39nan
thocht2 2,717.391.855
ah2 2,717.391.665
him4 5,434.781.652
than2 2,717.391.351
so2 2,717.391.318
a27 36,684.781.313
o11 14,945.651.265
ye2 2,717.391.203
her6 8,152.171.123
its2 2,717.391.106
wee3 4,076.091.083
she2 2,717.391.043
be2 2,717.390.949
ken2 2,717.390.935
auld2 2,717.390.819
had2 2,717.390.817
hae3 4,076.090.786
aye2 2,717.390.694
jist2 2,717.390.631
fowk2 2,717.390.605
on3 4,076.090.580
as3 4,076.090.561
by2 2,717.390.536
noo2 2,717.390.460
wi4 5,434.780.444
they4 5,434.780.417
we4 5,434.780.367
up3 4,076.090.011
but3 4,076.090.005
for4 5,434.780.004
no2 2,717.390.002
like2 2,717.390.002