A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Goodbrand Saunders, Donald

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 494
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 311
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.588
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, o, and, their, aa, they, in, or, an,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine
Lallans Magazine (2005-08-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (494 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
paradise4 8,097.1742.728
rottans2 4,048.5826.807
cheynge2 4,048.5822.254
their8 16,194.3321.857
blah2 4,048.5818.581
aa7 14,170.0416.380
yon4 8,097.1715.322
gates2 4,048.5814.486
adam2 4,048.5813.210
canna3 6,072.8711.939
city2 4,048.5811.615
ye're2 4,048.5811.570
they're2 4,048.5811.189
nou3 6,072.8711.054
unco2 4,048.5811.031
hell2 4,048.5810.993
fear2 4,048.5810.049
eftir2 4,048.589.990
our2 4,048.589.846
god2 4,048.588.969
nae6 12,145.758.273
less2 4,048.588.170
they7 14,170.048.080
nor3 6,072.877.875
deid2 4,048.587.638
or6 12,145.757.083
and9 18,218.626.701
warld2 4,048.586.142
doun2 4,048.585.641
fair2 4,048.585.252
maun2 4,048.585.003
through2 4,048.584.906
ken3 6,072.874.690
are3 6,072.874.618
me5 10,121.464.515
an6 12,145.754.315
some3 6,072.874.233
til2 4,048.583.911
tae5 10,121.463.713
ye6 12,145.753.109
come2 4,048.583.108
lang2 4,048.582.554
ower3 6,072.872.218
it3 6,072.871.702
a10 20,242.911.592
them2 4,048.581.332
i5 10,121.461.199
frae2 4,048.580.900
day2 4,048.580.852
that3 6,072.870.840
hae2 4,048.580.509
but3 6,072.870.501
for4 8,097.170.478
heine2 4,048.58nan
in6 12,145.750.412
is4 8,097.170.272
tuim-wames2 4,048.58nan
mccreishies2 4,048.58nan
the31 62,753.040.181
wi4 8,097.170.027
this2 4,048.580.007
heinrich2 4,048.58nan
up2 4,048.580.006
o10 20,242.910.003
on3 6,072.870.000