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 11,363.6447.940
her15 42,613.6437.429
brig4 11,363.6430.140
ewes2 5,681.8228.161
pagan2 5,681.8223.607
lass3 8,522.7321.730
yowes2 5,681.8218.404
howff2 5,681.8217.442
weel-kent2 5,681.8216.442
had5 14,204.5514.665
luikin2 5,681.8213.639
aw6 17,045.4513.366
cross2 5,681.8213.277
hoose4 11,363.6413.221
yince2 5,681.8212.902
dad2 5,681.8212.244
caa2 5,681.8211.988
wid4 11,363.6411.556
stane2 5,681.8211.309
later2 5,681.829.560
whaur3 8,522.739.527
still3 8,522.739.261
wheen2 5,681.828.497
watter2 5,681.827.502
were3 8,522.736.844
tae15 42,613.645.849
roon2 5,681.825.753
oor3 8,522.735.721
aye3 8,522.735.615
noo3 8,522.735.162
made2 5,681.824.842
pit2 5,681.824.095
she5 14,204.553.845
doon3 8,522.733.782
efter2 5,681.823.327
fae3 8,522.732.739
on5 14,204.552.703
wee2 5,681.821.487
wis6 17,045.451.378
ower2 5,681.821.302
hae2 5,681.821.198
nae2 5,681.820.768
be3 8,522.730.705
a13 36,931.820.683
aboot2 5,681.820.679
ye3 8,522.730.566
in4 11,363.640.452
an11 31,250.000.418
o9 25,568.180.396
it3 8,522.730.348
is3 8,522.730.284
up2 5,681.820.270
we2 5,681.820.227
the22 62,500.000.109
that3 8,522.730.068
wi3 8,522.730.047
as2 5,681.820.012