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 12,448.1343.620
windae5 20,746.8936.745
luikt2 8,298.7629.739
wife3 12,448.1317.526
thair4 16,597.5115.509
rock2 8,298.7615.483
view2 8,298.7614.328
aa4 16,597.5110.197
wi7 29,045.648.718
hiv2 8,298.768.442
throu2 8,298.767.989
left2 8,298.767.326
thon2 8,298.765.900
got2 8,298.765.209
awa2 8,298.764.299
a13 53,941.914.118
had2 8,298.763.897
ye4 16,597.513.641
the20 82,987.552.483
s4 16,597.512.043
fae2 8,298.761.773
skellet2 8,298.76nan
his3 12,448.131.428
tae3 12,448.131.102
that4 16,597.510.924
he3 12,448.130.336
wis3 12,448.130.130
and2 8,298.760.099
it3 12,448.130.010
an6 24,896.270.007
o5 20,746.890.000