A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 391
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 175
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.234
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, gaelic, for, tae, a, in, is, consultation,

List of texts in corpus

Biggin a strang future for Gaelic an Scots
Scottish Government (2022-08-24) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as government (391 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
gaelic15 38,363.17100.254
consultation7 17,902.8166.146
gàidhealtachd4 10,230.1841.640
thit6 15,345.2733.434
heezin3 7,672.6330.869
education5 12,787.7229.439
spikkers3 7,672.6325.283
for13 33,248.0824.968
term3 7,672.6324.769
medium3 7,672.6324.528
uisit2 5,115.0923.981
launchit2 5,115.0923.981
misures2 5,115.0922.086
siccar3 7,672.6319.767
effective2 5,115.0918.842
profile2 5,115.0918.041
growth2 5,115.0917.532
heeze2 5,115.0916.193
gme2 5,115.0915.284
makkin3 7,672.6315.278
bòrd2 5,115.0914.472
gàidhlig2 5,115.0914.328
athort2 5,115.0913.799
wull3 7,672.6313.107
pairts2 5,115.0912.634
we're2 5,115.0911.294
wantin2 5,115.0911.294
scotland4 10,230.1811.110
support2 5,115.099.880
public2 5,115.099.664
whit5 12,787.729.618
an21 53,708.449.333
scots6 15,345.278.781
new3 7,672.638.567
mak3 7,672.638.307
is8 20,460.368.097
na2 5,115.097.707
help2 5,115.097.257
gien2 5,115.096.689
throu2 5,115.096.178
hit2 5,115.096.024
place2 5,115.095.413
there4 10,230.185.092
o15 38,363.174.844
leid2 5,115.094.660
mair3 7,672.633.496
haes2 5,115.093.385
this4 10,230.182.870
are2 5,115.092.647
the30 76,726.342.335
tae13 33,248.082.209
fowk2 5,115.092.074
noo2 5,115.091.859
been2 5,115.091.567
up3 7,672.631.154
in8 20,460.360.547
they2 5,115.090.139
on3 7,672.630.129
at2 5,115.090.112
a11 28,132.990.021
be2 5,115.090.001