A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Purves, Jamie

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 401
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 240
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.671
Tagged as EDN (Edinburgh) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, a, wis, his, in, wi, thir, buirds,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 102 - Aince
Lallans Magazine (2023-07 ) in Central dialect (EDN), categorised as prose (401 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
buirds4 9,975.0653.494
an31 77,306.7327.907
trees4 9,975.0626.382
beaver2 4,987.5324.788
thir5 12,468.8323.964
amang4 9,975.0622.542
wuids2 4,987.5321.987
forest2 4,987.5317.276
tall2 4,987.5316.094
rock2 4,987.5313.347
wild2 4,987.5312.675
ilka3 7,481.3012.570
wuid2 4,987.5310.827
wir3 7,481.309.911
the39 97,256.869.589
sea2 4,987.538.811
whaur3 7,481.308.757
o18 44,887.788.731
end2 4,987.536.805
his7 17,456.366.243
atween2 4,987.535.829
wis8 19,950.123.070
wi6 14,962.592.342
hid2 4,987.532.311
fae3 7,481.302.249
ower2 4,987.531.011
aw2 4,987.530.890
he2 4,987.530.774
there2 4,987.530.717
like2 4,987.530.695
him2 4,987.530.653
nae2 4,987.530.527
a10 24,937.660.290
as2 4,987.530.092
in7 17,456.360.086
at3 7,481.300.067
for2 4,987.530.029