A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Piondargas, Criostoir

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 245
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 139
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.763
Tagged as GLA (Glasgow) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, gaelic, o, for, scots, a, an, in, baith, tae,

List of texts in corpus


no publisher recorded (2015-02-06) in Central dialect (GLA), categorised as prose (245 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
gaelic11 44,897.9676.932
daesnae2 8,163.2726.763
mibbe3 12,244.9023.346
baith4 16,326.5318.877
leids3 12,244.9016.461
hou3 12,244.9015.681
scots6 24,489.8013.451
onythin2 8,163.2713.136
kintra2 8,163.2712.823
acause2 8,163.2712.705
for7 28,571.4311.671
eneuch2 8,163.279.326
were3 12,244.908.759
hae4 16,326.538.659
fowk3 12,244.907.343
wan2 8,163.277.105
day3 12,244.906.084
aw3 12,244.905.066
haes2 8,163.274.975
scotland2 8,163.274.749
bi2 8,163.274.413
of2 8,163.273.847
some2 8,163.273.796
by2 8,163.273.386
the21 85,714.293.067
whit2 8,163.272.419
fae2 8,163.271.729
but2 8,163.270.878
we2 8,163.270.800
o7 28,571.430.676
tae4 16,326.530.338
in5 20,408.160.336
an5 20,408.160.300
a6 24,489.800.216
is2 8,163.270.145
on2 8,163.270.140
that3 12,244.900.130
at2 8,163.270.108
ye's2 8,163.27nan
wi2 8,163.270.015