A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Fenton, Janet

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 736
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 353
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.085
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, in, tae, and, he, that, i, o, leid,

List of texts in corpus

A Guid New Year tae yin and a!
Bella Caledonia (04-01-2019) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as blog (736 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
leid10 13,586.9641.145
and21 28,532.6129.395
jail2 2,717.3925.206
ain8 10,869.5723.087
he'd4 5,434.7822.388
fechter2 2,717.3920.655
yase2 2,717.3920.655
scrieved2 2,717.3918.605
ahm2 2,717.3918.224
kiddin2 2,717.3917.261
an5 6,793.4814.716
understand2 2,717.3914.367
english5 6,793.4813.340
stewart2 2,717.3913.096
didnae4 5,434.7813.020
wa2 2,717.3912.720
power2 2,717.3912.461
in24 32,608.7010.595
hoo3 4,076.0910.451
future2 2,717.399.837
gaen2 2,717.399.795
spik2 2,717.399.673
the25 33,967.399.294
i12 16,304.359.243
spak2 2,717.399.079
heard3 4,076.098.874
ony4 5,434.788.667
he15 20,380.438.351
makin2 2,717.397.558
better3 4,076.097.488
bairns3 4,076.097.374
whit6 8,152.177.167
guid4 5,434.786.866
when4 5,434.786.734
bonny2 2,717.396.685
aboot7 9,510.876.658
speak2 2,717.396.047
his10 13,586.965.746
words2 2,717.395.715
sair2 2,717.395.612
frae5 6,793.485.468
oan4 5,434.785.111
that14 19,021.744.980
wiz3 4,076.094.852
oor4 5,434.784.783
pit3 4,076.094.512
can4 5,434.784.448
ower5 6,793.484.403
faither2 2,717.394.367
gied2 2,717.393.941
their4 5,434.783.795
ma7 9,510.873.663
scots6 8,152.173.404
ither3 4,076.093.376
mither2 2,717.393.302
thing2 2,717.393.216
it4 5,434.783.155
are3 4,076.092.955
tae23 31,250.002.949
us3 4,076.092.866
get3 4,076.092.801
yin2 2,717.392.519
whaur2 2,717.392.465
even2 2,717.392.299
me5 6,793.482.296
if3 4,076.092.217
maist2 2,717.392.214
think2 2,717.392.189
is8 10,869.572.160
mak2 2,717.392.125
or5 6,793.482.115
at2 2,717.392.042
come2 2,717.391.926
language2 2,717.391.892
thocht2 2,717.391.880
fur4 5,434.781.818
him4 5,434.781.634
than2 2,717.391.391
so2 2,717.391.315
stewart's2 2,717.39nan
a27 36,684.781.342
o11 14,945.651.298
ah2 2,717.391.289
ye2 2,717.391.167
wee3 4,076.091.100
its2 2,717.391.072
she2 2,717.391.005
be2 2,717.390.952
ken2 2,717.390.913
auld2 2,717.390.822
hae3 4,076.090.775
aye2 2,717.390.628
kenya2 2,717.39nan
kent2 2,717.392.400
ngugi2 2,717.39nan
her6 8,152.171.079
thiong2 2,717.39nan
had2 2,717.390.811
on3 4,076.090.600
jist2 2,717.390.599
fowk2 2,717.390.582
as3 4,076.090.581
by2 2,717.390.525
noo2 2,717.390.468
wi4 5,434.780.467
they4 5,434.780.412
we4 5,434.780.352
up3 4,076.090.010
for4 5,434.780.007
but3 4,076.090.007
no2 2,717.390.003
like2 2,717.390.003