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 23,285.9079.603
had10 12,936.6127.543
ti10 12,936.6125.078
doun6 7,761.9724.072
brig4 5,174.6423.607
cleuch2 2,587.3220.461
passengers2 2,587.3219.841
reik2 2,587.3219.841
caur3 3,880.9819.215
crossin2 2,587.3218.834
mishanter2 2,587.3218.834
til6 7,761.9718.562
rey2 2,587.3218.412
display2 2,587.3216.794
san2 2,587.3215.853
russian2 2,587.3215.271
player2 2,587.3215.094
setterday2 2,587.3214.176
fuit2 2,587.3213.664
owre3 3,880.9812.134
hunners2 2,587.3210.882
lichts2 2,587.3210.547
jist6 7,761.9710.125
o30 38,809.8310.072
it20 25,873.229.896
on13 16,817.599.678
furst2 2,587.329.650
bi5 6,468.319.004
wud2 2,587.328.597
mynd2 2,587.328.294
cud3 3,880.988.098
reid2 2,587.327.961
aa6 7,761.977.819
ah11 14,230.277.446
days3 3,880.986.980
five2 2,587.326.489
himsel2 2,587.326.336
white2 2,587.326.319
naebody2 2,587.326.303
were4 5,174.645.805
afore4 5,174.645.632
anither3 3,880.985.578
intil2 2,587.325.125
luis2 2,587.32nan
air2 2,587.324.969
cam3 3,880.984.798
the60 77,619.664.765
year3 3,880.984.605
heard2 2,587.324.288
near2 2,587.324.194
ane3 3,880.983.873
but7 9,055.633.871
throu2 2,587.323.801
maun2 2,587.323.483
gey2 2,587.323.350
thing2 2,587.323.052
gaed2 2,587.322.790
tell2 2,587.322.713
in7 9,055.632.530
syne2 2,587.322.383
we6 7,761.972.177
that12 15,523.932.161
aye3 3,880.982.110
as2 2,587.322.039
again2 2,587.321.961
no4 5,174.641.517
ye2 2,587.321.366
been3 3,880.981.337
be2 2,587.321.128
ither2 2,587.321.064
wee3 3,880.980.957
oot5 6,468.310.813
get2 2,587.320.774
or4 5,174.640.717
hae3 3,880.980.653
and7 9,055.630.612
oor2 2,587.320.577
he5 6,468.310.511
his6 7,761.970.502
fowk2 2,587.320.496
there3 3,880.980.451
they2 2,587.320.377
this2 2,587.320.346
their2 2,587.320.304
a25 32,341.530.257
at4 5,174.640.208
lima2 2,587.32nan
frae2 2,587.320.159
an21 27,166.880.072
aboot2 2,587.320.043
for4 5,174.640.034
ma3 3,880.980.018
wi6 7,761.970.007