A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Philp, George

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 368
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 227
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.621
Tagged as ABN (Aberdeen) dialect.
Top ten most common words - an, the, i, o, ma, ye, a, in, wi, and,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 67 - Thochts anent Sangschaw and Penny Wheep
Lallans Magazine (2005-09-01 ) in Doric dialect (ABN), categorised as poetry (368 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
wheep3 8,152.1738.167
sangschaw3 8,152.1735.513
beuks3 8,152.1728.905
i14 38,043.4828.723
beikin2 5,434.7827.993
penny3 8,152.1723.943
ma11 29,891.3023.634
an25 67,934.7818.627
macdiarmid2 5,434.7817.570
intil3 8,152.1714.351
bairn2 5,434.788.479
licht2 5,434.787.953
its3 8,152.176.545
thir2 5,434.786.405
fair2 5,434.786.326
yon2 5,434.786.187
til2 5,434.784.931
o14 38,043.484.488
frae3 8,152.174.144
come2 5,434.784.081
tae3 8,152.174.018
a5 13,586.963.968
ye5 13,586.963.233
had2 5,434.782.613
by2 5,434.782.176
scots3 8,152.171.746
aa2 5,434.781.679
rothiemurchus2 5,434.78nan
wi5 13,586.961.510
mair2 5,434.781.423
on4 10,869.571.100
wis2 5,434.780.975
and4 10,869.570.816
nae2 5,434.780.687
the23 62,500.000.120
in5 13,586.960.099
that4 10,869.570.037