Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Cameron, Peter

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 1,112
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 486
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.288
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, and, in, o, i, or, wi, they, my,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 59 - Yowdendrift / Gin I Kent
Lallans (2021 ) in Central dialect, categorised as poetry (182 words)
Lallans 58 - Naebody’s Rose
Lallans (2021 ) in Central dialect, categorised as poetry (47 words)
Lallans 75 - The Raid on Clydebank
Lallans (2009-12-01) in Central dialect, categorised as poetry (101 words)

Lallans 74 - Cannle-flame
Lallans (2009-07-01) in Central dialect, categorised as poetry (70 words)

Lallans 73 - The Stranger
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect, categorised as poetry (114 words)
Lallans 58 - The Cornfields o Lowdie
Lallans Magazine (2001-03 ) in Central dialect, categorised as prose (598 words)

Author word usage frequencies

Word	Count	Normalised per 100,000
the	102	9172.66
a	42	3776.98
and	35	3147.48
in	32	2877.7
o	24	2158.27
i	23	2068.35
or	16	1438.85
wi	14	1258.99
they	11	989.21
my	9	809.35
your	8	719.42
ken	8	719.42
was	7	629.5
she	7	629.5
rose	6	539.57
to	6	539.57
when	6	539.57
an	6	539.57
aa	6	539.57
auld	6	539.57
frae	6	539.57
at	6	539.57
afore	6	539.57
nicht	6	539.57
bluid	5	449.64
snaw	5	449.64
warld	5	449.64
but	5	449.64
me	5	449.64
you	5	449.64
it's	5	449.64
there	5	449.64
deid	5	449.64
bairns	5	449.64
hou	4	359.71
whiles	4	359.71
naebody's	4	359.71
hand	4	359.71
see	4	359.71
tae	4	359.71
our	4	359.71
i've	4	359.71
nou	4	359.71
lowdie	4	359.71
wha	4	359.71
cauld	4	359.71
we	4	359.71
til	4	359.71
like	4	359.71
een	4	359.71
wind	4	359.71
be	4	359.71
planes	4	359.71
here	4	359.71
for	4	359.71
on	4	359.71
are	4	359.71
us	4	359.71
hear	4	359.71
owre	3	269.78
black	3	269.78
lang	3	269.78
hame	3	269.78
kent	3	269.78
her	3	269.78
juist	3	269.78
gin	3	269.78
say	3	269.78
crystal	3	269.78
aye	3	269.78
heid	3	269.78
come	3	269.78
day	3	269.78
mysel	3	269.78
thon	3	269.78
tam	3	269.78
wee	3	269.78
mind	3	269.78
aince	3	269.78
hert	3	269.78
gie	3	269.78
itsel	3	269.78
mirk	3	269.78
it	3	269.78
this	3	269.78
last	2	179.86
peel	2	179.86
luik	2	179.86
man	2	179.86
anerly	2	179.86
gless	2	179.86
think	2	179.86
rowed	2	179.86
grund	2	179.86
ablow	2	179.86
whilk	2	179.86
gray	2	179.86
stane	2	179.86
blinnd	2	179.86
ahint	2	179.86
time	2	179.86
sae	2	179.86
hinmaist	2	179.86
ane	2	179.86
no	2	179.86
yon	2	179.86
sometimes	2	179.86
early	2	179.86
road	2	179.86
ee	2	179.86
his	2	179.86
that's	2	179.86
nurse	2	179.86
whit	2	179.86
thing	2	179.86
airts	2	179.86
ain	2	179.86
years	2	179.86
muckle	2	179.86
bairn's	2	179.86
wad	2	179.86
flouer	2	179.86
i'm	2	179.86
never	2	179.86
bairn	2	179.86
petal	2	179.86
lift	2	179.86
back	2	179.86
ever	2	179.86
daw	2	179.86
simmer	2	179.86
were	2	179.86
morn	2	179.86
fields	2	179.86
atween	2	179.86
flee	2	179.86
siller	2	179.86
nae	2	179.86
nicht-at-eenie	2	179.86
dinna	2	179.86
legs	2	179.86
out	2	179.86
yae	2	179.86
lassie	2	179.86
did	2	179.86
can	2	179.86
throu	2	179.86
gang	2	179.86
air	2	179.86
flouers	2	179.86
stranger	2	179.86
sun	2	179.86
sang	2	179.86
gowd	2	179.86
merle's	2	179.86
mavis'	2	179.86
mune	2	179.86
s	2	179.86
flourish	2	179.86
warld-blinnd	2	179.86
yowdendrift	2	179.86
cannle-flame	2	179.86
swith	2	179.86
tak	2	179.86
as	2	179.86
rain	2	179.86
orra	2	179.86
cornfields	2	179.86
sheuch	2	179.86
handsel	2	179.86