A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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White, Ian Nimmo

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 210
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 152
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.382
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, a, is, it, me, saund, his, thru, siftin,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 102 - Ooergless
Lallans Magazine (2023-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (114 words)
Lallans 73 - Whit credit crunch
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (96 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
saund3 14,285.7141.537
thru3 14,285.7132.268
whun2 9,523.8119.655
and9 42,857.1418.623
masel2 9,523.819.918
me4 19,047.627.721
is5 23,809.526.158
ken2 9,523.814.602
noo2 9,523.813.804
aa2 9,523.813.249
siftin3 14,285.71nan
day2 9,523.813.207
whit2 9,523.812.857
his3 14,285.711.900
o2 9,523.811.597
ma2 9,523.811.048
oot2 9,523.811.044
it4 19,047.620.812
ooergless2 9,523.81nan
ye2 9,523.810.559
ah2 9,523.810.507
as2 9,523.810.338
the11 52,380.950.140
a7 33,333.330.120
he2 9,523.810.014
wis2 9,523.810.009