A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 391
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 175
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.234
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, gaelic, for, tae, a, in, is, consultation,

List of texts in corpus

Biggin a strang future for Gaelic an Scots
Scottish Government (2022-08-24) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as government (391 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
gaelic15 38,363.17102.209
consultation7 17,902.8165.975
gàidhealtachd4 10,230.1841.542
thit6 15,345.2733.290
heezin3 7,672.6330.795
education5 12,787.7229.465
spikkers3 7,672.6325.210
for13 33,248.0824.985
medium3 7,672.6324.820
term3 7,672.6324.820
uisit2 5,115.0923.931
launchit2 5,115.0923.931
misures2 5,115.0922.037
siccar3 7,672.6319.909
effective2 5,115.0919.021
profile2 5,115.0917.992
growth2 5,115.0917.483
heeze2 5,115.0916.259
makkin3 7,672.6315.353
gme2 5,115.0915.235
bòrd2 5,115.0914.423
athort2 5,115.0914.279
gàidhlig2 5,115.0914.279
wull3 7,672.6313.514
pairts2 5,115.0912.585
we're2 5,115.0911.311
wantin2 5,115.0911.311
scotland4 10,230.1811.022
support2 5,115.099.877
public2 5,115.099.701
an21 53,708.449.684
whit5 12,787.729.453
scots6 15,345.278.776
new3 7,672.638.501
mak3 7,672.638.426
is8 20,460.368.103
na2 5,115.097.685
help2 5,115.097.157
gien2 5,115.096.671
throu2 5,115.096.245
hit2 5,115.096.047
place2 5,115.095.535
there4 10,230.185.068
leid2 5,115.094.965
o15 38,363.174.932
mair3 7,672.633.557
haes2 5,115.093.473
this4 10,230.182.888
are2 5,115.092.557
tae13 33,248.082.254
the30 76,726.342.231
fowk2 5,115.092.115
noo2 5,115.091.880
been2 5,115.091.532
up3 7,672.631.171
in8 20,460.360.555
they2 5,115.090.143
on3 7,672.630.141
at2 5,115.090.110
a11 28,132.990.019
be2 5,115.090.000