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 23,285.9080.951
had10 12,936.6127.565
ti10 12,936.6125.086
doun6 7,761.9724.132
brig4 5,174.6423.611
cleuch2 2,587.3220.463
reik2 2,587.3219.843
passengers2 2,587.3219.307
caur3 3,880.9819.218
mishanter2 2,587.3218.836
crossin2 2,587.3218.836
til6 7,761.9718.599
rey2 2,587.3218.414
display2 2,587.3216.796
san2 2,587.3215.855
russian2 2,587.3215.273
player2 2,587.3215.096
setterday2 2,587.3214.043
fuit2 2,587.3213.666
owre3 3,880.9812.506
hunners2 2,587.3211.002
lichts2 2,587.3210.603
jist6 7,761.9710.313
o30 38,809.8310.139
on13 16,817.599.760
it20 25,873.229.740
furst2 2,587.329.528
bi5 6,468.319.008
wud2 2,587.328.663
mynd2 2,587.328.296
cud3 3,880.988.100
aa6 7,761.978.079
reid2 2,587.327.990
days3 3,880.986.790
five2 2,587.326.561
himsel2 2,587.326.388
ah11 14,230.276.353
naebody2 2,587.326.321
white2 2,587.326.223
were4 5,174.645.813
afore4 5,174.645.746
anither3 3,880.985.630
intil2 2,587.325.268
air2 2,587.324.949
cam3 3,880.984.789
luis2 2,587.32nan
the60 77,619.664.829
year3 3,880.984.596
heard2 2,587.324.263
near2 2,587.324.221
ane3 3,880.983.862
throu2 2,587.323.825
but7 9,055.633.799
maun2 2,587.323.478
gey2 2,587.323.339
thing2 2,587.323.064
gaed2 2,587.322.807
tell2 2,587.322.714
in7 9,055.632.525
syne2 2,587.322.422
aye3 3,880.982.256
we6 7,761.972.215
that12 15,523.932.161
as2 2,587.321.993
again2 2,587.321.926
no4 5,174.641.484
ye2 2,587.321.393
been3 3,880.981.322
be2 2,587.321.124
ither2 2,587.321.088
wee3 3,880.980.943
oot5 6,468.310.809
or4 5,174.640.754
get2 2,587.320.742
hae3 3,880.980.659
oor2 2,587.320.585
and7 9,055.630.584
his6 7,761.970.528
fowk2 2,587.320.515
lima2 2,587.32nan
he5 6,468.310.480
there3 3,880.980.442
they2 2,587.320.366
this2 2,587.320.348
their2 2,587.320.312
a25 32,341.530.244
at4 5,174.640.196
frae2 2,587.320.170
an21 27,166.880.098
ma3 3,880.980.049
aboot2 2,587.320.039
for4 5,174.640.028
wi6 7,761.970.010