A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Young, Clive

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 1,143
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 468
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.442
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, scots, an, is, o, it, in, scotland, s,

List of texts in corpus

Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots
The Sair Fecht (19-05-2016) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as blog (1,143 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
scots44 38,495.19134.962
creative13 11,373.58120.149
scotland18 15,748.0364.128
language16 13,998.2559.933
is27 23,622.0533.055
yiss3 2,624.6732.595
forderin3 2,624.6725.492
dialects4 3,499.5624.625
stannerts2 1,749.7823.452
stannert2 1,749.7823.452
dictionaries3 2,624.6721.255
defineetion2 1,749.7820.546
modren4 3,499.5620.059
dictionary3 2,624.6718.435
frae11 9,623.8018.127
tairm2 1,749.7817.750
policie2 1,749.7815.812
historie2 1,749.7815.517
mibbies2 1,749.7815.517
apairt3 2,624.6715.414
awbodie2 1,749.7815.243
naebodie2 1,749.7814.519
introduction2 1,749.7814.305
example3 2,624.6714.229
mair10 8,748.9113.856
thon6 5,249.3413.532
kinna3 2,624.6713.506
media3 2,624.6713.455
linguistic3 2,624.6713.403
but14 12,248.4712.985
writes2 1,749.7812.773
phrase2 1,749.7812.635
write3 2,624.6711.778
scotlan2 1,749.7811.573
aw10 8,748.9111.334
aften3 2,624.6711.306
scottish5 4,374.4511.297
awthin2 1,749.7811.275
en4 3,499.5611.249
writin3 2,624.6710.592
census2 1,749.7810.424
style2 1,749.7810.202
lallans2 1,749.7810.131
monie3 2,624.6710.019
jist7 6,124.239.427
makkit2 1,749.789.368
grammar2 1,749.789.038
education3 2,624.678.586
e4 3,499.568.568
government3 2,624.678.485
future2 1,749.788.113
fur9 7,874.027.962
policy2 1,749.787.876
wey5 4,374.457.633
tung3 2,624.677.626
coorse3 2,624.677.350
a50 43,744.537.324
spoken2 1,749.787.152
braid2 1,749.787.121
re4 3,499.567.086
aifter2 1,749.786.854
airts2 1,749.786.742
cultural2 1,749.786.579
fowk6 5,249.346.576
suin2 1,749.786.501
s17 14,873.146.353
isna2 1,749.785.890
bodie2 1,749.785.826
line2 1,749.785.805
bittie2 1,749.785.743
public2 1,749.785.662
dinna3 2,624.675.549
languages2 1,749.785.467
maks2 1,749.785.374
muckle4 3,499.565.166
forrit2 1,749.784.995
amang2 1,749.784.837
naethin2 1,749.784.745
thing3 2,624.674.689
lat2 1,749.784.657
siller2 1,749.784.515
brocht2 1,749.784.353
tae15 13,123.364.322
faur2 1,749.784.212
for2 1,749.784.181
guid4 3,499.564.120
sair2 1,749.784.113
no7 6,124.233.850
noo5 4,374.453.670
it21 18,372.703.578
whit6 5,249.343.549
ken4 3,499.563.073
wirds2 1,749.783.013
richt4 3,499.562.999
year3 2,624.672.871
ideologie2 1,749.78nan
years2 1,749.782.850
of4 3,499.562.554
fair2 1,749.782.489
ma2 1,749.782.373
they8 6,999.132.346
haes3 2,624.672.261
we8 6,999.132.189
wis7 6,124.232.139
same2 1,749.781.924
see4 3,499.561.921
ain3 2,624.671.918
wha2 1,749.781.857
leid2 1,749.781.591
weel3 2,624.671.581
fine2 1,749.781.567
big2 1,749.781.543
on4 3,499.561.541
nor2 1,749.781.371
bein2 1,749.781.326
there5 4,374.451.185
as10 8,748.911.172
english2 1,749.781.143
new2 1,749.781.078
and5 4,374.451.046
cam2 1,749.781.000
tak2 1,749.780.950
wi6 5,249.340.831
nae5 4,374.450.813
can3 2,624.670.741
ower4 3,499.560.709
sae3 2,624.670.691
then2 1,749.780.458
like2 1,749.780.393
here2 1,749.780.373
bit2 1,749.780.336
its2 1,749.780.291
in20 17,497.810.266
at6 5,249.340.256
hae2 1,749.780.183
aff2 1,749.780.149
the64 55,993.000.106
be5 4,374.450.104
some2 1,749.780.100
this5 4,374.450.089
up5 4,374.450.085
aye2 1,749.780.084
oor2 1,749.780.078
wee2 1,749.780.069
aboot3 2,624.670.047
that12 10,498.690.046
an30 26,246.720.037
or4 3,499.560.023
o23 20,122.480.010
oot5 4,374.450.007