A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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the48,696.5 527 55,547.9 43,862.2 57,919.9 2,435.4 42,688.7 37,589.1
tha1,975.3 52 30.3 12.1 0.0 58.1 10.3 27,666.3
e1,636.0 170 426.1 6,307.2 69.6 261.6 1,457.4 159.3

Search Results - Genres

Word prose
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twitter
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newspaper
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government
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the48,698.6 0.0 64,588.1 47,419.8 60,354.3 50,670.8 53,436.5
tha1,820.8 0.0 561.6 3,087.7 76.9 579.2 12,929.9
e2,520.3 0.0 355.9 461.7 913.8 55.8 382.6