A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lamb, Darcie

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 240
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 130
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.846
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, wis, aw, and, tae, ma, first, there, in,

List of texts in corpus

T in the Park
Scots Hoose (2020) in Central (Kirkcaldy) dialect (SEC), categorised as prose (240 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
pure3 12,500.0022.922
aw7 29,166.6722.276
act3 12,500.0022.089
stone2 8,333.3320.968
nut2 8,333.3319.121
roses2 8,333.3318.976
breakfast2 8,333.3317.865
sangs2 8,333.3316.008
first4 16,666.6715.796
she's2 8,333.3315.685
bus2 8,333.3313.612
a18 75,000.0012.434
people2 8,333.3311.349
felt2 8,333.339.839
git2 8,333.339.293
heard2 8,333.338.566
best2 8,333.338.224
go2 8,333.338.060
wis8 33,333.338.028
fair2 8,333.337.936
oan3 12,500.007.865
the25 104,166.677.585
wiz2 8,333.335.785
ma4 16,666.674.808
so2 8,333.334.753
there3 12,500.004.737
when2 8,333.334.673
and5 20,833.334.619
alessia2 8,333.33nan
cara2 8,333.33nan
were2 8,333.334.488
some2 8,333.333.849
jist2 8,333.333.678
their2 8,333.333.195
time2 8,333.333.019
day2 8,333.332.760
doon2 8,333.332.445
her3 12,500.001.821
aboot2 8,333.331.564
me2 8,333.331.306
up2 8,333.330.955
we2 8,333.330.885
in3 12,500.000.160
tae5 20,833.330.004