A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Thom, Williamina

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 352
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 180
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.956
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, tae, her, a, an, o, wis, aw, had, she,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 75 - Oor Tibby Pagan
Lallans Magazine (2009-12-01) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as weans (352 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
tibby4 11,363.6448.055
her15 42,613.6437.718
brig4 11,363.6430.254
ewes2 5,681.8228.219
pagan2 5,681.8223.044
lass3 8,522.7321.749
yowes2 5,681.8218.461
howff2 5,681.8217.500
weel-kent2 5,681.8216.500
had5 14,204.5514.474
luikin2 5,681.8213.696
aw6 17,045.4513.485
cross2 5,681.8213.285
hoose4 11,363.6413.222
yince2 5,681.8212.826
dad2 5,681.8212.263
caa2 5,681.8211.674
wid4 11,363.6411.660
stane2 5,681.8211.220
later2 5,681.829.597
whaur3 8,522.739.493
still3 8,522.739.226
wheen2 5,681.828.283
watter2 5,681.827.524
were3 8,522.736.820
tae15 42,613.645.833
roon2 5,681.825.711
aye3 8,522.735.625
oor3 8,522.735.619
noo3 8,522.735.100
made2 5,681.824.836
pit2 5,681.824.089
she5 14,204.553.908
doon3 8,522.733.771
efter2 5,681.823.310
fae3 8,522.732.769
on5 14,204.552.685
wee2 5,681.821.472
wis6 17,045.451.433
ower2 5,681.821.316
hae2 5,681.821.172
nae2 5,681.820.771
be3 8,522.730.711
aboot2 5,681.820.679
a13 36,931.820.656
ye3 8,522.730.553
in4 11,363.640.455
an11 31,250.000.398
o9 25,568.180.388
it3 8,522.730.348
is3 8,522.730.285
up2 5,681.820.268
we2 5,681.820.211
the22 62,500.000.137
that3 8,522.730.069
wi3 8,522.730.050
as2 5,681.820.012