Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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solonggaybowser

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 200
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 133
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.504
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, as, a, she, his, eggsy, on, in, he,

List of texts in corpus

Merlin's Bairns
archiveofourown.org (2020-08-18) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (200 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
crannie	3	15,000.00	43.086
merlin	2	10,000.00	30.439
laucht	2	10,000.00	24.726
ye'r	2	10,000.00	19.180
eggsy	4	20,000.00	nan
oh	3	15,000.00	17.777
phone	2	10,000.00	12.890
cat	2	10,000.00	12.415
again	3	15,000.00	11.934
lassie	2	10,000.00	10.962
kin	2	10,000.00	9.178
she	5	25,000.00	7.910
his	5	25,000.00	7.152
as	5	25,000.00	6.627
heid	2	10,000.00	5.707
him	3	15,000.00	5.491
aff	2	10,000.00	4.658
on	4	20,000.00	3.950
they	3	15,000.00	3.705
fur	2	10,000.00	2.447
me	2	10,000.00	1.776
tae	2	10,000.00	1.541
he	3	15,000.00	0.762
ye	2	10,000.00	0.632
that	3	15,000.00	0.465
the	10	50,000.00	0.259
an	6	30,000.00	0.165
a	5	25,000.00	0.136
in	3	15,000.00	0.004
merlin's	2	10,000.00	nan
it	2	10,000.00	0.061