A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lang, Charles

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 239
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 157
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.522
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, is, it, tae, will, fur, ae, be, mora,

List of texts in corpus

nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday
Association for Scottish Literature (2022-07-29 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (239 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
night's2 8,368.2029.716
buns2 8,368.2023.530
maybe3 12,552.3022.211
i'll3 12,552.3021.214
soup2 8,368.2018.102
will4 16,736.4016.351
cross2 8,368.2014.717
three3 12,552.3013.492
tuesday2 8,368.2013.345
take2 8,368.2011.617
ae4 16,736.4011.290
ur2 8,368.2011.284
n2 8,368.208.750
fur4 16,736.408.319
need2 8,368.207.991
is6 25,104.607.872
days2 8,368.207.457
mora3 12,552.30nan
hot2 8,368.2017.190
dae2 8,368.204.405
oan2 8,368.203.932
by2 8,368.203.488
it6 25,104.602.772
be3 12,552.301.898
aboot2 8,368.201.557
the18 75,313.811.154
in2 8,368.200.976
this2 8,368.200.970
oot2 8,368.200.768
a9 37,656.900.551
her2 8,368.200.398
ye2 8,368.200.350
i2 8,368.200.225
tae6 25,104.600.143
at2 8,368.200.126
that2 8,368.200.057