A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Love, Rowena M.

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 268
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 192
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.396
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, a, wi, in, as, o, is, tae, ma,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 82 - Simmer Strand
Lallans Magazine (2013-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (96 words)
Lallans 82 - Hame tae Dunbar Harbour
Lallans Magazine (2013-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (104 words)
Lallans 82 - Hamecomin
Lallans Magazine (2013-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (68 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
wuid2 7,462.6912.410
hert2 7,462.699.734
oan3 11,194.037.465
as6 22,388.066.897
time3 11,194.036.026
nor2 7,462.695.930
hame2 7,462.695.318
wi6 22,388.065.225
heid2 7,462.694.691
bi2 7,462.694.101
awa2 7,462.693.934
auld2 7,462.693.657
sae2 7,462.693.087
is4 14,925.372.396
ma3 11,194.032.170
in6 22,388.060.708
tae4 14,925.370.614
an9 33,582.090.599
it2 7,462.690.486
the18 67,164.180.408
a7 26,119.400.103
o5 18,656.720.056
he2 7,462.690.054
that3 11,194.030.045
plet2 7,462.69nan