Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Macdonald, Ileene

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 587
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 321
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.829
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, a, an, that, tae, but, i, in, have,

List of texts in corpus

Fit’s it aa aboot?
The Sair Fecht (29-12-2014) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as blog (587 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
pro-independence	4	6,814.31	41.354
have	7	11,925.04	38.956
movement	4	6,814.31	36.078
referendum	5	8,517.89	32.024
become	4	6,814.31	28.957
has	6	10,221.47	26.620
voices	3	5,110.73	25.231
blogs	2	3,407.16	24.395
beginning	2	3,407.16	19.939
emerged	2	3,407.16	19.136
reading	2	3,407.16	18.788
politics	3	5,110.73	17.896
political	3	5,110.73	17.668
twitter	2	3,407.16	15.557
result	2	3,407.16	13.362
chynged	2	3,407.16	11.851
campaign	2	3,407.16	11.472
yes	2	3,407.16	10.811
country	2	3,407.16	9.961
media	2	3,407.16	9.961
pynt	2	3,407.16	9.536
question	2	3,407.16	8.992
by	5	8,517.89	8.933
but	8	13,628.62	8.615
scotland	4	6,814.31	8.171
puir	2	3,407.16	8.056
monie	2	3,407.16	7.647
been	5	8,517.89	7.512
way	2	3,407.16	6.919
bein	3	5,110.73	6.895
this	7	11,925.04	6.472
new	3	5,110.73	6.352
much	2	3,407.16	5.905
coorse	2	3,407.16	5.829
end	2	3,407.16	5.461
hiv	2	3,407.16	5.175
frae	4	6,814.31	4.461
far	2	3,407.16	4.337
i	8	13,628.62	4.296
wur	2	3,407.16	4.093
aboot	5	8,517.89	4.056
to	3	5,110.73	3.905
are	3	5,110.73	3.833
fir	2	3,407.16	3.608
wis	2	3,407.16	3.568
of	3	5,110.73	3.438
hae	4	6,814.31	3.330
could	2	3,407.16	2.661
their	3	5,110.73	2.619
o	18	30,664.40	2.602
first	2	3,407.16	2.368
nae	4	6,814.31	2.343
we	5	8,517.89	2.330
aa	3	5,110.73	2.281
haes	2	3,407.16	2.218
ane	2	3,407.16	2.201
tae	8	13,628.62	1.935
scots	4	6,814.31	1.549
that	9	15,332.20	1.537
it	4	6,814.31	1.495
aff	2	3,407.16	1.355
an	11	18,739.35	1.141
fowk	2	3,407.16	1.068
and	6	10,221.47	0.953
noo	2	3,407.16	0.884
ae	2	3,407.16	0.812
his	2	3,407.16	0.634
or	3	5,110.73	0.541
s	3	5,110.73	0.531
on	5	8,517.89	0.489
commonweal	2	3,407.16	nan
is	5	8,517.89	0.475
mair	2	3,407.16	0.447
the	38	64,735.95	0.438
be	4	6,814.31	0.334
at	3	5,110.73	0.166
in	8	13,628.62	0.151
oot	3	5,110.73	0.107
as	4	6,814.31	0.048
a	18	30,664.40	0.038
wi	4	6,814.31	0.032