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 8,733.6223.702
and10 43,668.1221.017
cloot2 8,733.6218.507
suit2 8,733.6217.642
empty2 8,733.6215.997
we5 21,834.068.913
left2 8,733.627.492
back3 13,100.446.084
haed2 8,733.625.801
thocht2 8,733.625.686
ower3 13,100.445.641
he6 26,200.875.236
so2 8,733.624.911
an2 8,733.623.496
ae2 8,733.623.395
intae2 8,733.623.360
wee2 8,733.622.699
whit2 8,733.622.591
his3 13,100.441.596
the18 78,602.621.553
or2 8,733.621.423
they2 8,733.621.030
tae3 13,100.440.884
in2 8,733.620.833
wi3 13,100.440.789
o3 13,100.440.736
it4 17,467.250.562
a8 34,934.500.249
wis3 13,100.440.180