A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McGibbon, Joe

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 243
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 172
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.413
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, o, ma, i, an, hame, mi, tae, no,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 74 - Draps o Sapie-Bubble
Lallans Magazine (2009-07) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (139 words)

Lallans 73 - Feyther Langshanks Blues
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (104 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
tuppence3 12,345.6838.086
bubbles3 12,345.6836.808
mi4 16,460.9135.883
coff2 8,230.4523.994
pipes2 8,230.4516.835
hame4 16,460.9116.542
drappit2 8,230.4516.293
ma7 28,806.5815.232
lest2 8,230.4514.084
i6 24,691.368.242
gied2 8,230.457.982
mither2 8,230.457.234
wur2 8,230.457.149
anither2 8,230.456.376
juist2 8,230.455.559
no3 12,345.684.655
nae3 12,345.684.205
oan2 8,230.453.919
wee2 8,230.452.503
the9 37,037.042.197
bit2 8,230.451.916
tae3 12,345.681.138
in2 8,230.451.038
o7 28,806.580.709
wi3 12,345.680.648
hip-jynt2 8,230.45nan
her2 8,230.450.389
an5 20,576.130.278
is2 8,230.450.153
a8 32,921.810.104
wis2 8,230.450.086