A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Porter, Steve

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 241
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 149
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.617
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, wi, an, o, windae, s, ye, thair, that,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 74 - Gone Wi The Windae
Lallans Magazine (2009-07) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (241 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
calum3 12,448.1343.534
windae5 20,746.8936.650
luikt2 8,298.7629.682
wife3 12,448.1317.508
thair4 16,597.5115.681
rock2 8,298.7615.485
view2 8,298.7614.271
aa4 16,597.5110.296
wi7 29,045.648.688
hiv2 8,298.768.387
throu2 8,298.768.025
left2 8,298.767.313
thon2 8,298.766.003
got2 8,298.765.264
awa2 8,298.764.290
a13 53,941.914.179
had2 8,298.763.968
ye4 16,597.513.673
the20 82,987.552.375
s4 16,597.512.044
fae2 8,298.761.753
skellet2 8,298.76nan
his3 12,448.131.426
tae3 12,448.131.097
that4 16,597.510.930
he3 12,448.130.336
wis3 12,448.130.117
and2 8,298.760.093
it3 12,448.130.010
an6 24,896.270.005
o5 20,746.890.000