A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Porter, Steve

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 241
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 149
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.617
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, wi, an, o, windae, s, ye, thair, that,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 74 - Gone Wi The Windae
Lallans Magazine (2009-07) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (241 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
calum3 12,448.1343.537
windae5 20,746.8936.419
luikt2 8,298.7629.684
wife3 12,448.1317.489
thair4 16,597.5115.732
rock2 8,298.7615.546
view2 8,298.7614.230
aa4 16,597.5110.499
wi7 29,045.648.762
hiv2 8,298.768.473
throu2 8,298.768.052
left2 8,298.767.321
thon2 8,298.766.143
got2 8,298.765.236
awa2 8,298.764.352
a13 53,941.914.147
had2 8,298.763.972
ye4 16,597.513.639
the20 82,987.552.400
s4 16,597.511.961
fae2 8,298.761.726
skellet2 8,298.76nan
his3 12,448.131.453
tae3 12,448.131.082
that4 16,597.510.930
he3 12,448.130.352
wis3 12,448.130.118
and2 8,298.760.087
it3 12,448.130.008
an6 24,896.270.002
o5 20,746.890.000