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 9,975.0653.396
an31 77,306.7328.569
trees4 9,975.0626.449
beaver2 4,987.5324.739
thir5 12,468.8323.866
amang4 9,975.0622.713
wuids2 4,987.5321.938
forest2 4,987.5317.227
tall2 4,987.5316.045
rock2 4,987.5313.355
wild2 4,987.5312.675
ilka3 7,481.3012.623
wuid2 4,987.5310.779
wir3 7,481.309.898
the39 97,256.869.365
sea2 4,987.539.011
o18 44,887.788.856
whaur3 7,481.308.690
end2 4,987.536.838
his7 17,456.366.305
atween2 4,987.535.941
wis8 19,950.123.000
wi6 14,962.592.370
hid2 4,987.532.276
fae3 7,481.302.175
ower2 4,987.531.013
aw2 4,987.530.840
he2 4,987.530.751
there2 4,987.530.709
like2 4,987.530.662
him2 4,987.530.656
nae2 4,987.530.531
a10 24,937.660.281
in7 17,456.360.089
as2 4,987.530.086
at3 7,481.300.069
for2 4,987.530.029