Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Bryden, Hugh

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 1,674
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 877
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.909
Tagged as SWE (South West (Galloway)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, ye, ah, in, an, yer, tae, o, mate,

List of texts in corpus

Chuckies fir the Cairn
Luath (13-01-2009 ) in Southern (Dumfries) dialect, categorised as poetry (1,674 words)

Author word usage frequencies

Word	Count	Normalised per 100,000
the	101	6033.45
a	63	3763.44
ye	35	2090.8
ah	32	1911.59
in	29	1732.38
an	28	1672.64
yer	24	1433.69
tae	19	1135.01
o	18	1075.27
mate	16	955.79
it	16	955.79
wi	16	955.79
ma	15	896.06
but	13	776.58
yir	12	716.85
is	11	657.11
he	10	597.37
jist	10	597.37
and	10	597.37
wee	9	537.63
that	9	537.63
his	7	418.16
fur	7	418.16
whit	7	418.16
aa	7	418.16
wur	7	418.16
paint	6	358.42
wis	6	358.42
wir	6	358.42
see	6	358.42
as	6	358.42
noo	6	358.42
me	6	358.42
no	6	358.42
be	6	358.42
still	5	298.69
like	5	298.69
whin	5	298.69
at	5	298.69
up	5	298.69
could	5	298.69
they	5	298.69
there	5	298.69
voice	4	238.95
nae	4	238.95
thit	4	238.95
faither	4	238.95
frae	4	238.95
aye	4	238.95
van	4	238.95
him	4	238.95
man	4	238.95
think	4	238.95
intae	4	238.95
were	4	238.95
it's	4	238.95
kin	4	238.95
art	4	238.95
face	4	238.95
oot	4	238.95
day	3	179.21
we	3	179.21
thir	3	179.21
smile	3	179.21
fae	3	179.21
rembrandt	3	179.21
hair	3	179.21
thum	3	179.21
hae	3	179.21
aboot	3	179.21
you	3	179.21
things	3	179.21
pure	3	179.21
hiv	3	179.21
hus	3	179.21
ah'm	3	179.21
on	3	179.21
dumfries	3	179.21
oan	3	179.21
life	3	179.21
time	3	179.21
thur	3	179.21
pint	3	179.21
us	3	179.21
awa	3	179.21
thing	3	179.21
true	3	179.21
so	3	179.21
fowk	3	179.21
late	3	179.21
if	3	179.21
richt	3	179.21
bi	3	179.21
thon	3	179.21
thit's	2	119.47
bairn's	2	119.47
what	2	119.47
tell	2	119.47
form	2	119.47
chappin	2	119.47
misst	2	119.47
swirlin	2	119.47
light	2	119.47
thocht	2	119.47
then	2	119.47
th	2	119.47
thet	2	119.47
your	2	119.47
get	2	119.47
rain	2	119.47
airt	2	119.47
air	2	119.47
mental	2	119.47
shug'	2	119.47
coat's	2	119.47
just	2	119.47
thin	2	119.47
boab	2	119.47
vision	2	119.47
look	2	119.47
fag	2	119.47
two	2	119.47
hid	2	119.47
louder	2	119.47
show	2	119.47
bit	2	119.47
ee	2	119.47
sublime	2	119.47
number	2	119.47
faces	2	119.47
lassie	2	119.47
maist	2	119.47
did	2	119.47
fags	2	119.47
fellay	2	119.47
soun	2	119.47
she	2	119.47
great	2	119.47
folks	2	119.47
gither	2	119.47
balloon	2	119.47
an'	2	119.47
thet's	2	119.47
each	2	119.47
must	2	119.47
breath	2	119.47
o'	2	119.47
mean	2	119.47
through	2	119.47
inside	2	119.47
feel	2	119.47
ties	2	119.47
while	2	119.47
wid	2	119.47
painted	2	119.47
or	2	119.47
heard	2	119.47
yous	2	119.47
fir	2	119.47
born	2	119.47
pit	2	119.47
tho	2	119.47
ither	2	119.47
back	2	119.47
ain	2	119.47
press	2	119.47
airtists	2	119.47
writers	2	119.47
saatchi	2	119.47
words	2	119.47
sound	2	119.47
wuz	2	119.47
drum	2	119.47
faither's	2	119.47
burst	2	119.47
say	2	119.47
mi	2	119.47
metaphor	2	119.47
felt	2	119.47
its	2	119.47
gan	2	119.47
watcht	2	119.47
wan	2	119.47
hoose	2	119.47
bare	2	119.47
those	2	119.47
afore	2	119.47
can	2	119.47
miss	2	119.47
turner	2	119.47