Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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.

Word	Count	Normalised per million	Keyness
pure	3	12,500.00	22.876
aw	7	29,166.67	22.230
act	3	12,500.00	22.099
stone	2	8,333.33	20.975
nut	2	8,333.33	19.127
roses	2	8,333.33	18.982
breakfast	2	8,333.33	17.871
sangs	2	8,333.33	16.015
first	4	16,666.67	15.808
she's	2	8,333.33	15.691
bus	2	8,333.33	13.618
a	18	75,000.00	12.436
people	2	8,333.33	11.335
felt	2	8,333.33	9.845
git	2	8,333.33	9.275
heard	2	8,333.33	8.572
best	2	8,333.33	8.230
wis	8	33,333.33	8.046
go	2	8,333.33	8.041
fair	2	8,333.33	7.942
oan	3	12,500.00	7.804
the	25	104,166.67	7.579
wiz	2	8,333.33	5.700
ma	4	16,666.67	4.811
so	2	8,333.33	4.756
there	3	12,500.00	4.735
when	2	8,333.33	4.672
and	5	20,833.33	4.629
were	2	8,333.33	4.491
cara	2	8,333.33	nan
some	2	8,333.33	3.849
jist	2	8,333.33	3.673
their	2	8,333.33	3.195
time	2	8,333.33	3.024
day	2	8,333.33	2.762
doon	2	8,333.33	2.445
alessia	2	8,333.33	nan
her	3	12,500.00	1.824
aboot	2	8,333.33	1.564
me	2	8,333.33	1.307
up	2	8,333.33	0.953
we	2	8,333.33	0.885
in	3	12,500.00	0.159
tae	5	20,833.33	0.004