Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Roddie, J.

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 217
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 125
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.736
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, he, his, o, tae, aa, unbekent, fae, whaur,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 102 - Oedipus
Lallans Magazine (2023-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (217 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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
unbekent	3	13,824.88	42.581
man's	2	9,216.59	20.722
his	9	41,474.65	20.377
an	18	82,949.31	18.151
roads	2	9,216.59	17.858
he	10	46,082.95	17.323
queen	2	9,216.59	16.546
road	3	13,824.88	15.331
meet	2	9,216.59	14.603
weans	2	9,216.59	13.763
lay	2	9,216.59	12.636
whaur	3	13,824.88	12.235
aa	4	18,433.18	11.038
hir	2	9,216.59	10.108
faither	2	9,216.59	8.847
doun	2	9,216.59	8.698
alang	2	9,216.59	8.238
three	2	9,216.59	7.815
cam	2	9,216.59	6.201
haed	2	9,216.59	5.997
heid	2	9,216.59	5.448
fae	3	13,824.88	4.911
auld	2	9,216.59	4.338
said	2	9,216.59	4.234
a	2	9,216.59	4.153
them	2	9,216.59	3.743
yer	2	9,216.59	3.394
she	3	13,824.88	2.201
the	18	82,949.31	2.131
tae	4	18,433.18	0.100
wi	2	9,216.59	0.080
o	4	18,433.18	0.053
in	3	13,824.88	0.046