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 13,586.9641.392
and21 28,532.6129.647
jail2 2,717.3923.539
ain8 10,869.5723.097
he'd4 5,434.7822.501
fechter2 2,717.3920.712
yase2 2,717.3920.712
ahm2 2,717.3918.281
scrieved2 2,717.3917.934
kiddin2 2,717.3917.319
an5 6,793.4814.858
understand2 2,717.3914.424
english5 6,793.4813.446
stewart2 2,717.3913.055
didnae4 5,434.7812.929
wa2 2,717.3912.777
power2 2,717.3912.517
in24 32,608.7010.574
hoo3 4,076.0910.289
future2 2,717.399.810
gaen2 2,717.399.769
spik2 2,717.399.728
i12 16,304.359.353
spak2 2,717.399.134
the25 33,967.398.972
heard3 4,076.098.925
ony4 5,434.788.723
he15 20,380.438.358
makin2 2,717.397.590
better3 4,076.097.481
bairns3 4,076.097.450
whit6 8,152.177.251
when4 5,434.786.791
guid4 5,434.786.786
bonny2 2,717.396.738
aboot7 9,510.876.658
speak2 2,717.396.070
his10 13,586.965.753
words2 2,717.395.664
sair2 2,717.395.664
frae5 6,793.485.436
oan4 5,434.785.180
that14 19,021.744.954
wiz3 4,076.094.922
oor4 5,434.784.662
pit3 4,076.094.504
can4 5,434.784.470
ower5 6,793.484.443
faither2 2,717.394.374
gied2 2,717.393.967
their4 5,434.783.819
ma7 9,510.873.701
scots6 8,152.173.501
ither3 4,076.093.347
mither2 2,717.393.314
it4 5,434.783.154
thing2 2,717.393.104
are3 4,076.092.977
tae23 31,250.002.933
get3 4,076.092.812
us3 4,076.092.785
whaur2 2,717.392.447
yin2 2,717.392.334
even2 2,717.392.315
me5 6,793.482.278
maist2 2,717.392.212
if3 4,076.092.206
think2 2,717.392.184
is8 10,869.572.164
mak2 2,717.392.121
or5 6,793.482.086
at2 2,717.392.021
come2 2,717.391.947
language2 2,717.391.928
thocht2 2,717.391.879
fur4 5,434.781.741
him4 5,434.781.646
than2 2,717.391.402
stewart's2 2,717.39nan
so2 2,717.391.339
o11 14,945.651.318
a27 36,684.781.286
ah2 2,717.391.233
ye2 2,717.391.191
wee3 4,076.091.082
its2 2,717.391.073
she2 2,717.390.970
be2 2,717.390.944
ken2 2,717.390.921
auld2 2,717.390.841
hae3 4,076.090.747
aye2 2,717.390.632
kenya2 2,717.39nan
kent2 2,717.392.427
ngugi2 2,717.39nan
her6 8,152.171.127
thiong2 2,717.39nan
had2 2,717.390.769
on3 4,076.090.610
jist2 2,717.390.587
as3 4,076.090.579
fowk2 2,717.390.579
by2 2,717.390.512
wi4 5,434.780.458
noo2 2,717.390.447
they4 5,434.780.405
we4 5,434.780.324
up3 4,076.090.010
but3 4,076.090.007
no2 2,717.390.005
for4 5,434.780.004
like2 2,717.390.004