A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Scott, Colin

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 229
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 154
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.487
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, a, he, we, it, ower, back, o, wis,

List of texts in corpus

nobody remembers the birdman - Empty Nest
Association for Scottish Literature (2022-07-29 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (229 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
shouther2 8,733.6223.704
and10 43,668.1220.888
cloot2 8,733.6218.275
suit2 8,733.6217.548
empty2 8,733.6215.873
we5 21,834.068.967
left2 8,733.627.501
back3 13,100.446.088
haed2 8,733.625.836
ower3 13,100.445.667
thocht2 8,733.625.647
he6 26,200.875.307
so2 8,733.624.913
ae2 8,733.623.432
an2 8,733.623.419
intae2 8,733.623.314
wee2 8,733.622.683
whit2 8,733.622.563
his3 13,100.441.624
the18 78,602.621.573
or2 8,733.621.454
they2 8,733.621.042
tae3 13,100.440.871
in2 8,733.620.832
wi3 13,100.440.807
o3 13,100.440.728
it4 17,467.250.543
a8 34,934.500.242
wis3 13,100.440.181