A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Grubb, Adrian

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 371
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 170
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.182
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, wis, tae, it, and, me, ma, then, jump,

List of texts in corpus

Bungee
Scots Hoose (2020) in Central (Kirkcaldy) dialect (SEC), categorised as prose (371 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
jump5 13,477.0951.765
awbudy3 8,086.2543.176
harness3 8,086.2536.221
feart4 10,781.6725.982
a31 83,557.9525.887
cord2 5,390.8422.784
pad2 5,390.8422.784
then6 16,172.5121.804
didny2 5,390.8421.353
launch2 5,390.8420.971
gonnae3 8,086.2520.331
wis15 40,431.2719.384
cos3 8,086.2518.209
seconds2 5,390.8417.241
group3 8,086.2517.089
went4 10,781.6717.045
whin3 8,086.2516.719
me8 21,563.3416.682
rope2 5,390.8416.587
faw2 5,390.8415.267
eh3 8,086.2514.187
really3 8,086.2513.981
dain2 5,390.8413.127
ma8 21,563.3412.829
want3 8,086.2511.347
er2 5,390.8410.882
dae4 10,781.6710.527
fir3 8,086.259.995
looked2 5,390.848.976
and8 21,563.347.790
got3 8,086.257.727
was3 8,086.257.623
it11 29,649.607.107
last2 5,390.845.799
up5 13,477.095.462
tae15 40,431.275.115
made2 5,390.844.637
mind2 5,390.844.536
wiz2 5,390.844.166
pit2 5,390.843.947
first2 5,390.843.817
wee3 8,086.253.677
but4 10,781.673.027
said2 5,390.842.492
on5 13,477.092.445
jist2 5,390.842.308
mair2 5,390.841.405
back2 5,390.841.386
they3 8,086.251.302
doon2 5,390.841.264
whit2 5,390.841.245
aw2 5,390.841.008
there2 5,390.840.867
that5 13,477.090.444
the19 51,212.940.347
we2 5,390.840.175
oot2 5,390.840.114
in5 13,477.090.111
at2 5,390.840.064
as2 5,390.840.032
ye2 5,390.840.000