A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Scott, Colin

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 229
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 154
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.487
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, a, he, we, it, ower, back, o, wis,

List of texts in corpus

nobody remembers the birdman - Empty Nest
Association for Scottish Literature (2022-07-29 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (229 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
shouther2 8,733.6223.759
and10 43,668.1221.149
cloot2 8,733.6218.565
suit2 8,733.6217.604
empty2 8,733.6216.054
we5 21,834.068.803
left2 8,733.627.506
back3 13,100.446.138
haed2 8,733.625.774
thocht2 8,733.625.686
ower3 13,100.445.670
he6 26,200.875.239
so2 8,733.624.946
an2 8,733.623.536
ae2 8,733.623.436
intae2 8,733.623.375
wee2 8,733.622.680
whit2 8,733.622.620
the18 78,602.621.638
his3 13,100.441.598
or2 8,733.621.409
they2 8,733.621.024
tae3 13,100.440.889
in2 8,733.620.836
wi3 13,100.440.796
o3 13,100.440.744
it4 17,467.250.562
a8 34,934.500.235
wis3 13,100.440.196