Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Roddie, J.

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 217
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 125
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.736
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, he, his, o, tae, aa, unbekent, fae, whaur,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 102 - Oedipus
Lallans Magazine (2023-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (217 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
unbekent	3	13,824.88	42.668
man's	2	9,216.59	20.779
his	9	41,474.65	20.386
an	18	82,949.31	18.025
roads	2	9,216.59	17.544
he	10	46,082.95	17.331
queen	2	9,216.59	16.604
road	3	13,824.88	15.306
meet	2	9,216.59	14.534
weans	2	9,216.59	13.459
lay	2	9,216.59	12.693
whaur	3	13,824.88	12.201
aa	4	18,433.18	10.938
hir	2	9,216.59	10.151
faither	2	9,216.59	8.855
doun	2	9,216.59	8.753
alang	2	9,216.59	8.229
three	2	9,216.59	7.799
cam	2	9,216.59	6.240
haed	2	9,216.59	5.970
heid	2	9,216.59	5.440
fae	3	13,824.88	4.946
auld	2	9,216.59	4.370
said	2	9,216.59	4.245
a	2	9,216.59	4.198
them	2	9,216.59	3.705
yer	2	9,216.59	3.352
she	3	13,824.88	2.238
the	18	82,949.31	2.229
tae	4	18,433.18	0.101
wi	2	9,216.59	0.082
o	4	18,433.18	0.056
in	3	13,824.88	0.047