A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Templeton, Sheila

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 347
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 226
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.535
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, yer, ye, tae, that, o, in, wis, an,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - La Bella Rebelle
Doric Books (2023-02-20 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (211 words)
Lallans 73 - Lairnin About Luve
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (136 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
yer9 25,936.6031.797
speerit2 5,763.6919.263
jyle2 5,763.6918.462
anne2 5,763.6917.226
pictur2 5,763.6917.096
luve2 5,763.6914.407
fan3 8,645.5313.883
kitchen2 5,763.6911.941
ye8 23,054.7611.201
ask2 5,763.6910.946
himsel2 5,763.699.364
bonnie2 5,763.699.364
naebody2 5,763.699.329
times2 5,763.697.914
side2 5,763.696.780
didnae2 5,763.696.705
auld3 8,645.536.178
sic2 5,763.696.056
time3 8,645.534.739
even2 5,763.694.731
cam2 5,763.694.521
man2 5,763.693.693
ain2 5,763.693.551
were2 5,763.693.246
that7 20,172.912.901
jist2 5,763.692.450
fowk2 5,763.692.424
or3 8,645.532.097
an5 14,409.222.070
day2 5,763.691.720
but3 8,645.531.503
wis6 17,291.071.448
wi4 11,527.380.649
they2 5,763.690.278
at3 8,645.530.237
o6 17,291.070.202
the19 54,755.040.082
in6 17,291.070.063
be2 5,763.690.035
tae7 20,172.910.028
as2 5,763.690.008
a10 28,818.440.002
it4 11,527.380.001
i2 5,763.690.001
for2 5,763.690.001
he3 8,645.530.000
his2 5,763.690.000