A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Anderson, Elizabeth

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 437
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 241
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.813
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - an, o, the, a, wis, in, he, his, at, scots,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001
Lallans Magazine (2001 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as newspaper (437 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
alistair6 13,729.9878.249
academy4 9,153.3245.507
aiberdeen5 11,441.6538.616
brainch3 6,864.9936.100
ears4 9,153.3235.668
retiral2 4,576.6627.298
gifted2 4,576.6627.298
taylor2 4,576.6625.572
hymns2 4,576.6622.124
mony5 11,441.6521.655
comatee3 6,864.9920.936
poetry3 6,864.9920.185
schools2 4,576.6619.071
tuik3 6,864.9917.197
prose2 4,576.6617.197
friens2 4,576.6617.197
an27 61,784.9016.825
enjoyed2 4,576.6616.309
books2 4,576.6615.475
wis14 32,036.6113.252
society2 4,576.6612.841
wide2 4,576.6612.680
stanes2 4,576.6612.526
scots7 16,018.3110.680
his9 20,594.9710.225
buik2 4,576.669.721
o19 43,478.268.644
he10 22,883.307.067
pairt2 4,576.666.034
efter3 6,864.995.873
gied2 4,576.665.716
bi3 6,864.995.704
at7 16,018.314.470
the16 36,613.274.254
aa3 6,864.993.490
muckle2 4,576.663.412
on6 13,729.983.044
ower3 6,864.992.701
tae5 11,441.652.482
in11 25,171.622.209
of2 4,576.661.969
time2 4,576.661.319
been2 4,576.661.254
a16 36,613.270.764
wi2 4,576.660.565
and2 4,576.660.331
as2 4,576.660.179
i2 4,576.660.151
for3 6,864.990.114
up2 4,576.660.061