A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Donaldson, Gordon

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 773
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 392
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.972
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, a, an, it, was, on, that, ah, ti,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 90 - Echty-Echt
Lallans Magazine (2017-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (521 words)
Lallans 82 - Belike a Mishanter
Lallans Magazine (2013-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (252 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
was18 23,285.9079.045
had10 12,936.6127.169
ti10 12,936.6125.332
doun6 7,761.9724.236
brig4 5,174.6423.720
cleuch2 2,587.3220.519
passengers2 2,587.3219.899
reik2 2,587.3219.899
caur3 3,880.9819.300
crossin2 2,587.3218.891
mishanter2 2,587.3218.891
rey2 2,587.3218.469
til6 7,761.9718.392
display2 2,587.3216.851
san2 2,587.3215.910
russian2 2,587.3215.328
player2 2,587.3215.151
setterday2 2,587.3213.969
fuit2 2,587.3213.721
owre3 3,880.9812.216
hunners2 2,587.3210.823
lichts2 2,587.3210.550
jist6 7,761.9710.061
o30 38,809.8310.006
it20 25,873.229.898
on13 16,817.599.625
furst2 2,587.329.346
bi5 6,468.319.047
mynd2 2,587.328.349
reid2 2,587.327.989
cud3 3,880.987.895
wud2 2,587.327.736
aa6 7,761.977.693
ah11 14,230.277.632
days3 3,880.986.938
five2 2,587.326.524
himsel2 2,587.326.388
white2 2,587.326.339
naebody2 2,587.326.323
were4 5,174.645.776
afore4 5,174.645.631
anither3 3,880.985.572
intil2 2,587.325.176
the60 77,619.665.037
air2 2,587.324.955
luis2 2,587.32nan
cam3 3,880.984.850
year3 3,880.984.634
heard2 2,587.324.320
near2 2,587.324.119
ane3 3,880.983.916
but7 9,055.633.869
throu2 2,587.323.769
maun2 2,587.323.504
gey2 2,587.323.396
thing2 2,587.322.942
gaed2 2,587.322.835
tell2 2,587.322.709
in7 9,055.632.538
syne2 2,587.322.409
that12 15,523.932.144
aye3 3,880.982.118
we6 7,761.972.098
as2 2,587.322.036
again2 2,587.321.975
no4 5,174.641.545
ye2 2,587.321.391
been3 3,880.981.366
be2 2,587.321.120
ither2 2,587.321.049
wee3 3,880.980.940
oot5 6,468.310.819
get2 2,587.320.779
or4 5,174.640.701
and7 9,055.630.642
hae3 3,880.980.626
oor2 2,587.320.541
he5 6,468.310.509
his6 7,761.970.503
fowk2 2,587.320.493
there3 3,880.980.449
they2 2,587.320.382
this2 2,587.320.354
their2 2,587.320.310
a25 32,341.530.233
at4 5,174.640.201
lima2 2,587.32nan
frae2 2,587.320.155
an21 27,166.880.061
aboot2 2,587.320.043
for4 5,174.640.027
ma3 3,880.980.016
wi6 7,761.970.008