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 14,285.7141.623
thru3 14,285.7131.281
and9 42,857.1418.742
whun2 9,523.8116.337
masel2 9,523.819.937
me4 19,047.627.699
is5 23,809.526.163
ken2 9,523.814.616
noo2 9,523.813.762
aa2 9,523.813.204
siftin3 14,285.71nan
day2 9,523.813.221
whit2 9,523.812.887
his3 14,285.711.903
o2 9,523.811.608
ma2 9,523.811.059
oot2 9,523.811.047
it4 19,047.620.812
ooergless2 9,523.81nan
ye2 9,523.810.549
ah2 9,523.810.530
as2 9,523.810.339
the11 52,380.950.118
a7 33,333.330.111
he2 9,523.810.014
wis2 9,523.810.006