Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Holton, Brian

Punctuation analysis - Comparative word frequency analysis

Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 1,561
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 626
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.494
Tagged as SEA (South East (Borders)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, an, in, ti, wis, o, and, at, ma,

List of texts in corpus

An Owresetter’s Tale
Bella Caledonia (2015-Nov-26 ) in Lallans (Galashiels) dialect, categorised as blog (1,561 words)

Author word usage frequencies

Word	Count	Normalised per 100,000
a	91	5829.6
the	86	5509.29
an	59	3779.63
in	51	3267.14
ti	42	2690.58
wis	37	2370.28
o	28	1793.72
and	24	1537.48
at	22	1409.35
ma	19	1217.17
wi	17	1089.05
he	15	960.92
��s	14	896.86
hed	13	832.8
for	12	768.74
on	12	768.74
frae	11	704.68
scots	11	704.68
his	10	640.61
it	10	640.61
we	9	576.55
chinese	9	576.55
that	9	576.55
��d	9	576.55
my	8	512.49
but	8	512.49
english	8	512.49
eftir	7	448.43
gaed	7	448.43
as	7	448.43
aa	7	448.43
no	7	448.43
read	6	384.37
cud	6	384.37
hou	6	384.37
fursten	6	384.37
or	5	320.31
poetry	5	320.31
uis	5	320.31
��t	5	320.31
latin	5	320.31
��	5	320.31
under	5	320.31
hausa	5	320.31
never	5	320.31
ye	5	320.31
whaur	5	320.31
french	5	320.31
mither	5	320.31
schuil	4	256.25
sae	4	256.25
us	4	256.25
stert	4	256.25
year	4	256.25
tho	4	256.25
me	4	256.25
fowk	4	256.25
harvey	4	256.25
readin	4	256.25
fair	4	256.25
up	4	256.25
our	4	256.25
of	4	256.25
university	4	256.25
stertit	4	256.25
this	4	256.25
leid	4	256.25
greek	3	192.18
some	3	192.18
tae	3	192.18
norman	3	192.18
whan	3	192.18
brither	3	192.18
mcdiarmid	3	192.18
been	3	192.18
library	3	192.18
wee	3	192.18
dae	3	192.18
waley	3	192.18
john	3	192.18
gaun	3	192.18
was	3	192.18
poems	3	192.18
masel	3	192.18
scott	3	192.18
place	3	192.18
scotland	3	192.18
back	3	192.18
inti	3	192.18
out	3	192.18
donald	3	192.18
dominies	3	192.18
then	3	192.18
cam	3	192.18
hous	3	192.18
twin	3	192.18
dad	3	192.18
swahili	3	192.18
galashiels	3	192.18
faither	3	192.18
born	3	192.18
young	3	192.18
to	3	192.18
i	3	192.18
big	2	128.12
thon	2	128.12
tongue	2	128.12
saxt	2	128.12
language	2	128.12
ken	2	128.12
yin	2	128.12
flittit	2	128.12
owreset	2	128.12
whit	2	128.12
says	2	128.12
be	2	128.12
feinisht	2	128.12
smith	2	128.12
edinburgh	2	128.12
spak	2	128.12
hedna	2	128.12
alec	2	128.12
arthur	2	128.12
nou	2	128.12
nigeria	2	128.12
high	2	128.12
spent	2	128.12
mind	2	128.12
her	2	128.12
memory	2	128.12
like	2	128.12
juist	2	128.12
hugh	2	128.12
kent	2	128.12
baith	2	128.12
later	2	128.12
wir	2	128.12
uncle	2	128.12
war	2	128.12
sit	2	128.12
��	2	128.12
academy	2	128.12
grandfaither	2	128.12
tak	2	128.12
morn	2	128.12
��	2	128.12
games	2	128.12
wad	2	128.12
dolby	2	128.12
throu	2	128.12
literature	2	128.12
what	2	128.12
mcinnes	2	128.12
time	2	128.12
gotten	2	128.12
bill	2	128.12
see	2	128.12
original	2	128.12
gala	2	128.12
lagos	2	128.12
west	2	128.12
doun	2	128.12
beukie	2	128.12
apply	2	128.12
shelf	2	128.12
pidgin	2	128.12
write	2	128.12
yon	2	128.12
saicont	2	128.12
ain	2	128.12
hame	2	128.12
leids	2	128.12
onie	2	128.12
furst	2	128.12
-	2	128.12
tale	2	128.12
leirit	2	128.12
spied	2	128.12
fund	2	128.12
by	2	128.12
day	2	128.12
awfu	2	128.12
can	2	128.12
lessons	2	128.12
mair	2	128.12
kennin	2	128.12
monie	2	128.12
border	2	128.12
beuk	2	128.12
pittin	2	128.12
tellt	2	128.12
come	2	128.12