Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Calderwood, Lynsey

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 3,050
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 776
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.93
Tagged as WCE (West Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - ah, the, an, she, tae, said, ��s, it, ma, a,

List of texts in corpus

Mumbo Jumbo
Litro magazine (01-01-2006 ) in Lallans dialect, categorised as prose (1,873 words)

Cantsmell
From Glasgow To Saturn (01-01-2020 ) in Lallans dialect, categorised as prose (1,177 words)

Author word usage frequencies

Word	Count	Normalised per 100,000
ah	143	4688.52
the	108	3540.98
an	107	3508.2
she	90	2950.82
tae	79	2590.16
said	76	2491.8
��s	60	1967.21
it	58	1901.64
ma	57	1868.85
a	53	1737.7
in	51	1672.13
wis	45	1475.41
her	38	1245.9
yi	29	950.82
aw	28	918.03
me	28	918.03
��	27	885.25
cos	23	754.1
ae	21	688.52
that	21	688.52
wi	20	655.74
wit	20	655.74
he	19	622.95
no	19	622.95
got	19	622.95
fur	19	622.95
aboot	18	590.16
on	17	557.38
up	17	557.38
pure	17	557.38
when	17	557.38
laura	17	557.38
yir	16	524.59
at	16	524.59
school	16	524.59
bonny	15	491.8
but	15	491.8
you	15	491.8
jist	15	491.8
lik	14	459.02
madame	14	459.02
��d	13	426.23
this	12	393.44
then	12	393.44
went	12	393.44
teacher	11	360.66
his	11	360.66
they	11	360.66
wur	11	360.66
��m	11	360.66
class	10	327.87
did	10	327.87
don	10	327.87
there	10	327.87
wid	10	327.87
��t	10	327.87
cantsmell	10	327.87
be	9	295.08
we	9	295.08
aye	9	295.08
doon	9	295.08
talkin	9	295.08
wee	9	295.08
charlene	8	262.3
heid	8	262.3
nits	8	262.3
harpreet	8	262.3
hud	8	262.3
how	8	262.3
well	8	262.3
oot	8	262.3
back	8	262.3
intae	8	262.3
see	8	262.3
day	8	262.3
so	7	229.51
fae	7	229.51
next	7	229.51
gaunny	7	229.51
right	7	229.51
huv	7	229.51
time	7	229.51
naw	7	229.51
get	7	229.51
french	7	229.51
always	7	229.51
oor	7	229.51
know	6	196.72
them	6	196.72
sit	6	196.72
three	6	196.72
if	6	196.72
puni	6	196.72
go	6	196.72
is	6	196.72
been	6	196.72
come	6	196.72
us	6	196.72
aff	6	196.72
pit	6	196.72
kirsty	6	196.72
face	6	196.72
didnae	6	196.72
daein	6	196.72
��ll	6	196.72
wan	5	163.93
as	5	163.93
history	5	163.93
hair	5	163.93
dead	5	163.93
understaun	5	163.93
mornin	5	163.93
gettin	5	163.93
never	5	163.93
tolt	5	163.93
words	5	163.93
think	5	163.93
another	5	163.93
or	5	163.93
canny	5	163.93
nurse	5	163.93
sammy	5	163.93
these	4	131.15
dae	4	131.15
semple	4	131.15
test	4	131.15
tryin	4	131.15
shut	4	131.15
way	4	131.15
somethin	4	131.15
sat	4	131.15
startet	4	131.15
him	4	131.15
after	4	131.15
german	4	131.15
man	4	131.15
couldnae	4	131.15
want	4	131.15
karen	4	131.15
gied	4	131.15
thought	4	131.15
��re	4	131.15
half	4	131.15
work	4	131.15
widnae	3	98.36
room	3	98.36
staunin	3	98.36
thir	3	98.36
can	3	98.36
either	3	98.36
comes	3	98.36
colin	3	98.36
big	3	98.36
might	3	98.36
cantwell	3	98.36
jotter	3	98.36
could	3	98.36
seen	3	98.36
bus	3	98.36
why	3	98.36
say	3	98.36
pal	3	98.36
sayin	3	98.36
feel	3	98.36
came	3	98.36
week	3	98.36
haun	3	98.36
says	3	98.36
sick	3	98.36
till	3	98.36
help	3	98.36
any	3	98.36
meant	3	98.36
sits	3	98.36
desk	3	98.36
parents	3	98.36
before	3	98.36
best	3	98.36
even	3	98.36
primary	3	98.36
too	3	98.36
book	3	98.36
off	3	98.36
crappin	3	98.36
to	3	98.36
masel	3	98.36
ears	3	98.36
same	3	98.36
thing	3	98.36
simple	3	98.36
punies	3	98.36
away	3	98.36
though	3	98.36
of	3	98.36
for	3	98.36
clatty	2	65.57
kyle	2	65.57
forgot	2	65.57
fingernails	2	65.57
opent	2	65.57
ootside	2	65.57
stood	2	65.57
toilet	2	65.57
door	2	65.57
subject	2	65.57
side	2	65.57
marks	2	65.57
believe	2	65.57
stayed	2	65.57
blond	2	65.57
smiled	2	65.57
row	2	65.57
are	2	65.57
stuff	2	65.57
until	2	65.57
bag	2	65.57
turnt	2	65.57
left	2	65.57
hygiene	2	65.57
was	2	65.57
heard	2	65.57
maaa	2	65.57
still	2	65.57
thirties	2	65.57
changin	2	65.57
sing	2	65.57
paki	2	65.57
eighteen	2	65.57
tellin	2	65.57
only	2	65.57
tell	2	65.57
��yi	2	65.57
d	2	65.57
used	2	65.57
has	2	65.57
saw	2	65.57
bar	2	65.57
ever	2	65.57
evrubdy	2	65.57
ding	2	65.57
bwat	2	65.57
bad	2	65.57
breath	2	65.57
oors	2	65.57
office	2	65.57
pronounce	2	65.57
actually	2	65.57
super	2	65.57
tried	2	65.57
job	2	65.57
gave	2	65.57
out	2	65.57
mind	2	65.57
hate	2	65.57
ages	2	65.57
walkin	2	65.57
boys	2	65.57
nearly	2	65.57
except	2	65.57
nit	2	65.57
millions	2	65.57
market	2	65.57
seein	2	65.57
folk	2	65.57
mad	2	65.57
usually	2	65.57
phones	2	65.57
tapes	2	65.57
listenin	2	65.57
ten	2	65.57
learnin	2	65.57
makes	2	65.57
roon	2	65.57
top	2	65.57
two	2	65.57
totally	2	65.57
front	2	65.57
scratchin	2	65.57
noo	2	65.57
smell	2	65.57
kept	2	65.57
tape	2	65.57
minutes	2	65.57
look	2	65.57
endet	2	65.57
first	2	65.57
word	2	65.57
days	2	65.57
dis	2	65.57
apparently	2	65.57
talks	2	65.57
gromits	2	65.57
hearin	2	65.57
signature	2	65.57
lookin	2	65.57
wearin	2	65.57
gaun	2	65.57
ripped	2	65.57
some	2	65.57
since	2	65.57
high	2	65.57
regi	2	65.57
let	2	65.57
looked	2	65.57
massive	2	65.57
cawd	2	65.57
ootae	2	65.57
twenty	2	65.57
dandruff	2	65.57
and	2	65.57
shite	2	65.57
finally	2	65.57
four	2	65.57
need	2	65.57
become	2	65.57
mingin	2	65.57
care	2	65.57
ask	2	65.57
every	2	65.57
pen	2	65.57
red	2	65.57
through	2	65.57
case	2	65.57
mair	2	65.57
language	2	65.57