A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Purves, Jamie

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 401
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 240
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.671
Tagged as EDN (Edinburgh) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, a, wis, his, in, wi, thir, buirds,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 102 - Aince
Lallans Magazine (2023-07 ) in Central dialect (EDN), categorised as prose (401 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
buirds4 9,975.0653.379
an31 77,306.7328.117
trees4 9,975.0626.377
beaver2 4,987.5324.731
thir5 12,468.8323.867
amang4 9,975.0622.629
wuids2 4,987.5321.929
forest2 4,987.5317.219
tall2 4,987.5316.036
rock2 4,987.5313.347
wild2 4,987.5312.619
ilka3 7,481.3012.534
wuid2 4,987.5310.771
wir3 7,481.309.840
the39 97,256.869.306
sea2 4,987.538.895
whaur3 7,481.308.790
o18 44,887.788.777
end2 4,987.536.771
his7 17,456.366.237
atween2 4,987.535.828
wis8 19,950.122.980
wi6 14,962.592.325
hid2 4,987.532.269
fae3 7,481.302.220
ower2 4,987.530.998
aw2 4,987.530.866
he2 4,987.530.775
there2 4,987.530.719
like2 4,987.530.682
him2 4,987.530.648
nae2 4,987.530.525
a10 24,937.660.272
as2 4,987.530.092
in7 17,456.360.087
at3 7,481.300.064
for2 4,987.530.034