Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Grace, Reyzl

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 392
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 241
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.627
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, in, o, and, tae, as, for, this, his,

List of texts in corpus

Eemis Stane 2 - Late Efternuin in the Hermitage
Eemis Stane (2023-01-26 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (392 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
brin	2	5,102.04	27.789
anely	4	10,204.08	25.742
mungo	2	5,102.04	24.879
cud	4	10,204.08	17.729
a	28	71,428.57	17.519
throu	4	10,204.08	17.512
licht	3	7,653.06	13.790
comes	3	7,653.06	13.144
whilk	2	5,102.04	12.910
aither	2	5,102.04	12.910
haund	2	5,102.04	10.661
leuk	2	5,102.04	9.220
whaur	3	7,653.06	8.881
war	3	7,653.06	8.521
haein	2	5,102.04	8.508
and	8	20,408.16	7.324
cauld	2	5,102.04	6.727
thir	2	5,102.04	6.210
auld	3	7,653.06	5.609
bein	2	5,102.04	4.603
gin	2	5,102.04	4.240
thaim	2	5,102.04	3.480
wad	2	5,102.04	3.028
bi	2	5,102.04	2.862
this	4	10,204.08	2.854
like	3	7,653.06	2.529
some	2	5,102.04	2.313
in	10	25,510.20	2.103
can	2	5,102.04	2.050
intae	2	5,102.04	1.766
for	4	10,204.08	1.191
wis	2	5,102.04	1.176
but	3	7,653.06	1.118
his	4	10,204.08	1.116
aw	2	5,102.04	0.939
hae	2	5,102.04	0.929
as	4	10,204.08	0.888
no	2	5,102.04	0.745
him	2	5,102.04	0.696
it	3	7,653.06	0.644
o	10	25,510.20	0.422
wi	2	5,102.04	0.336
or	2	5,102.04	0.330
tae	7	17,857.14	0.260
hermitage	2	5,102.04	nan
is	3	7,653.06	0.131
ma	2	5,102.04	0.076
he	3	7,653.06	0.057
her	2	5,102.04	0.000
lily-white	2	5,102.04	nan
the	25	63,775.51	0.246