Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Meikle, William

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 1,520
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 475
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.2
Tagged as AYR (Ayrshire) dialect.
Top ten most common words - ye, ah, tae, that, the, a, me, wis, it, in,

List of texts in corpus

Overheard in a Cemetery
ABCTales.com (2021-03-26) in Central (Ayrshire) dialect, categorised as prose (1,520 words)

Author word usage frequencies

Word	Count	Normalised per 100,000
ye	73	4802.63
ah	72	4736.84
tae	45	2960.53
that	43	2828.95
the	37	2434.21
a	33	2171.05
me	32	2105.26
wis	31	2039.47
it	23	1513.16
in	19	1250
ma	17	1118.42
but	17	1118.42
o'	16	1052.63
be	15	986.84
jist	15	986.84
and	14	921.05
when	13	855.26
an'	13	855.26
a'	13	855.26
dae	13	855.26
were	12	789.47
ken	12	789.47
no'	11	723.68
aboot	11	723.68
hae	11	723.68
never	11	723.68
like	10	657.89
as	10	657.89
did	10	657.89
whit	10	657.89
noo	9	592.11
jessie	9	592.11
mind	9	592.11
day	9	592.11
we	9	592.11
wi'	9	592.11
man	9	592.11
too	8	526.32
there	8	526.32
at	8	526.32
for	8	526.32
wee	8	526.32
he	7	460.53
time	7	460.53
micht	6	394.74
this	6	394.74
always	6	394.74
think	6	394.74
said	6	394.74
auld	6	394.74
even	6	394.74
see	6	394.74
yer	5	328.95
oor	5	328.95
wish	5	328.95
his	5	328.95
could	5	328.95
here	5	328.95
him	5	328.95
on	5	328.95
thegither	5	328.95
them	5	328.95
been	5	328.95
used	5	328.95
oot	5	328.95
had	5	328.95
ah've	5	328.95
would	5	328.95
afore	4	263.16
why	4	263.16
if	4	263.16
last	4	263.16
didnae	4	263.16
so	4	263.16
ither	4	263.16
they	4	263.16
wan	4	263.16
she	4	263.16
us	4	263.16
get	4	263.16
guid	4	263.16
i	4	263.16
no	4	263.16
then	4	263.16
got	4	263.16
up	4	263.16
ah'm	4	263.16
by	4	263.16
it's	4	263.16
look	4	263.16
much	4	263.16
again	3	197.37
weans	3	197.37
must	3	197.37
wance	3	197.37
thinkin'	3	197.37
mornin'	3	197.37
talk	3	197.37
noo'	3	197.37
twa	3	197.37
dinnae	3	197.37
telt	3	197.37
maist	3	197.37
way	3	197.37
aye	3	197.37
left	3	197.37
folk	3	197.37
onybody	3	197.37
gettin'	3	197.37
that's	3	197.37
come	3	197.37
fine	3	197.37
wedding	3	197.37
many	3	197.37
sae	3	197.37
let	3	197.37
only	3	197.37
really	3	197.37
ah'd	3	197.37
have	3	197.37
weel	3	197.37
faur	3	197.37
remember	3	197.37
mair	3	197.37
first	3	197.37
mither	2	131.58
happy	2	131.58
ah'll	2	131.58
every	2	131.58
better	2	131.58
ony	2	131.58
things	2	131.58
should	2	131.58
sich	2	131.58
woman	2	131.58
hit	2	131.58
problem	2	131.58
say	2	131.58
back	2	131.58
week	2	131.58
een	2	131.58
richt	2	131.58
hear	2	131.58
disnae	2	131.58
toon	2	131.58
rain	2	131.58
mean	2	131.58
bother	2	131.58
made	2	131.58
than	2	131.58
voice	2	131.58
talked	2	131.58
getting	2	131.58
because	2	131.58
lads	2	131.58
roon	2	131.58
how	2	131.58
word	2	131.58
john	2	131.58
suit	2	131.58
bad	2	131.58
miss	2	131.58
bed	2	131.58
big	2	131.58
fur	2	131.58
days	2	131.58
onyway	2	131.58
faither	2	131.58
yours	2	131.58
boy	2	131.58
gie	2	131.58
happened	2	131.58
jimmy	2	131.58
aroon	2	131.58
married	2	131.58
tried	2	131.58
maybe	2	131.58
he's	2	131.58
years	2	131.58
can	2	131.58
sittin'	2	131.58
after	2	131.58
bothered	2	131.58
quite	2	131.58
suppose	2	131.58
bit	2	131.58
whether	2	131.58
promised	2	131.58
or	2	131.58
nicht	2	131.58
went	2	131.58
hope	2	131.58
don't	2	131.58
are	2	131.58