A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Donaldson, Gordon

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 773
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 392
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.972
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, a, an, it, was, on, that, ah, ti,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 90 - Echty-Echt
Lallans Magazine (2017-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (521 words)
Lallans 82 - Belike a Mishanter
Lallans Magazine (2013-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (252 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
was18 23,285.9081.007
had10 12,936.6127.594
ti10 12,936.6125.115
doun6 7,761.9724.150
brig4 5,174.6423.624
cleuch2 2,587.3220.470
reik2 2,587.3219.850
passengers2 2,587.3219.314
caur3 3,880.9819.228
mishanter2 2,587.3218.842
crossin2 2,587.3218.842
til6 7,761.9718.617
rey2 2,587.3218.421
display2 2,587.3216.802
san2 2,587.3215.862
russian2 2,587.3215.279
player2 2,587.3215.103
setterday2 2,587.3214.050
fuit2 2,587.3213.673
owre3 3,880.9812.515
hunners2 2,587.3210.890
lichts2 2,587.3210.609
jist6 7,761.9710.297
o30 38,809.8310.185
on13 16,817.599.787
it20 25,873.229.724
furst2 2,587.329.534
bi5 6,468.319.021
wud2 2,587.328.669
mynd2 2,587.328.302
cud3 3,880.988.109
aa6 7,761.978.094
reid2 2,587.327.996
days3 3,880.986.798
five2 2,587.326.531
himsel2 2,587.326.377
ah11 14,230.276.341
naebody2 2,587.326.327
white2 2,587.326.229
were4 5,174.645.818
afore4 5,174.645.751
anither3 3,880.985.638
intil2 2,587.325.273
air2 2,587.324.944
cam3 3,880.984.797
luis2 2,587.32nan
the60 77,619.664.821
year3 3,880.984.604
heard2 2,587.324.269
near2 2,587.324.226
ane3 3,880.983.869
throu2 2,587.323.830
but7 9,055.633.808
maun2 2,587.323.483
gey2 2,587.323.344
thing2 2,587.323.069
gaed2 2,587.322.812
tell2 2,587.322.719
in7 9,055.632.517
syne2 2,587.322.427
aye3 3,880.982.241
we6 7,761.972.216
that12 15,523.932.154
as2 2,587.322.004
again2 2,587.321.921
no4 5,174.641.476
ye2 2,587.321.405
been3 3,880.981.322
be2 2,587.321.125
ither2 2,587.321.092
wee3 3,880.980.942
oot5 6,468.310.807
or4 5,174.640.758
get2 2,587.320.742
hae3 3,880.980.662
and7 9,055.630.590
oor2 2,587.320.586
his6 7,761.970.524
fowk2 2,587.320.517
lima2 2,587.32nan
he5 6,468.310.482
there3 3,880.980.441
they2 2,587.320.372
this2 2,587.320.347
their2 2,587.320.312
a25 32,341.530.245
at4 5,174.640.197
frae2 2,587.320.172
an21 27,166.880.100
ma3 3,880.980.049
aboot2 2,587.320.039
for4 5,174.640.027
wi6 7,761.970.010