A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Wilson, Lucy

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 195
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 127
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.535
Tagged as WCE (West Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - tae, ma, the, a, we, but, it, and, be, in,

List of texts in corpus

Lock Doon
Greenock Telegraph (2021-05-18) in Central (Greenock) dialect (WCE), categorised as poetry (195 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
sa3 15,384.6233.992
ad2 10,256.4121.129
but6 30,769.2314.388
we6 30,769.2314.349
granny2 10,256.4113.304
ma6 30,769.2313.242
school2 10,256.4113.142
will3 15,384.6211.733
never2 10,256.419.267
let2 10,256.419.181
keep2 10,256.418.562
want2 10,256.418.453
just2 10,256.418.000
hoose2 10,256.416.303
aw3 15,384.626.109
be4 20,512.825.236
or3 15,384.624.640
oor2 10,256.414.465
this3 15,384.623.875
yer2 10,256.413.692
and4 20,512.823.650
the6 30,769.233.200
it5 25,641.032.374
tae7 35,897.441.631
is2 10,256.410.440
in4 20,512.820.287
s2 10,256.410.168
a6 30,769.230.014
cany2 10,256.41nan