A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Scott, Hamish

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 1,104
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 432
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.556
Tagged as SWE (South West (Galloway)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, wi, wis, it, he, a, his, for,

List of texts in corpus

Eemis Stane 1 - Fields o Stanes
Eemis Stane (2022-05-06 ) in Central dialect (SWE), categorised as prose (807 words)
Lallans 75 - Televeision
Lallans Magazine (2009-12-01) in Central dialect (SWE), categorised as poetry (297 words)

Author word usage frequencies

WordCount Normalised
per million
the9586,050.72
an6155,253.62
o2825,362.32
wi2522,644.93
wis2219,927.54
it2119,021.74
he2018,115.94
a1917,210.14
his1816,304.35
for1513,586.96
we1412,681.16
aa1210,869.57
thair1210,869.57
ti1210,869.57
that119,963.77
fowk109,057.97
life109,057.97
at109,057.97
on109,057.97
in98,152.17
as98,152.17
him87,246.38
lan76,340.58
thare76,340.58
sum76,340.58
s76,340.58
its76,340.58
things65,434.78
bein65,434.78
mair65,434.78
but65,434.78
v65,434.78
haed65,434.78
thai65,434.78
aw65,434.78
bairns65,434.78
tho54,528.99
hame54,528.99
tales54,528.99
thaim54,528.99
wark54,528.99
jeems54,528.99
ain54,528.99
tv54,528.99
i54,528.99
year43,623.19
wad43,623.19
redd43,623.19
hae43,623.19
lik43,623.19
or43,623.19
syne43,623.19
naitur43,623.19
toun43,623.19
auld43,623.19
sein43,623.19
hir32,717.39
ither32,717.39
throu32,717.39
fields32,717.39
wey32,717.39
warld32,717.39
toun-bred32,717.39
stanes32,717.39
kintra-side32,717.39
hail32,717.39
uised32,717.39
maist32,717.39
whit32,717.39
screin32,717.39
place32,717.39
afore32,717.39
our32,717.39
ferm-toun32,717.39
fae32,717.39
whar32,717.39
unco32,717.39
til32,717.39
se32,717.39
thon32,717.39
cam21,811.59
sic21,811.59
day21,811.59
nou21,811.59
growin21,811.59
cud21,811.59
en21,811.59
tell21,811.59
ainlie21,811.59
got21,811.59
bade21,811.59
field21,811.59
janet21,811.59
factorie21,811.59
souns21,811.59
forby21,811.59
smells21,811.59
towmond21,811.59
mukkil21,811.59
een21,811.59
tentie21,811.59
aye21,811.59
sichts21,811.59
ceity21,811.59
hame-gaun21,811.59
eneuch21,811.59
whan21,811.59
wirkin21,811.59
faimlie21,811.59
first21,811.59
kintra21,811.59
eikin21,811.59
existence21,811.59
no21,811.59
wirkit21,811.59
wir21,811.59
saw21,811.59
bodie21,811.59
bi21,811.59
hairst21,811.59
is21,811.59
stane21,811.59
faither21,811.59
fremmit21,811.59
granbairns21,811.59
aboot21,811.59
this21,811.59
watcht21,811.59
land21,811.59
us21,811.59
bible21,811.59