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 38,495.19133.887
creative13 11,373.58119.502
scotland18 15,748.0364.057
language16 13,998.2559.904
is27 23,622.0533.008
yiss3 2,624.6732.582
dialects4 3,499.5624.609
stannerts2 1,749.7823.444
stannert2 1,749.7823.444
forderin3 2,624.6721.660
dictionaries3 2,624.6721.243
defineetion2 1,749.7820.537
modren4 3,499.5620.043
dictionary3 2,624.6718.423
frae11 9,623.8017.912
tairm2 1,749.7817.741
policie2 1,749.7815.804
historie2 1,749.7815.509
mibbies2 1,749.7815.509
apairt3 2,624.6715.402
awbodie2 1,749.7815.235
naebodie2 1,749.7814.511
example3 2,624.6714.158
introduction2 1,749.7814.094
mair10 8,748.9113.702
kinna3 2,624.6713.547
media3 2,624.6713.494
linguistic3 2,624.6713.391
thon6 5,249.3413.145
but14 12,248.4713.138
writes2 1,749.7812.765
phrase2 1,749.7812.626
write3 2,624.6711.804
scotlan2 1,749.7811.565
aw10 8,748.9111.514
scottish5 4,374.4511.490
aften3 2,624.6711.329
awthin2 1,749.7811.267
en4 3,499.5611.215
writin3 2,624.6710.550
style2 1,749.7810.194
lallans2 1,749.7810.123
monie3 2,624.6710.034
makkit2 1,749.789.302
jist7 6,124.239.238
census2 1,749.789.082
grammar2 1,749.789.029
e4 3,499.568.528
education3 2,624.678.513
government3 2,624.678.374
fur9 7,874.028.178
future2 1,749.788.146
policy2 1,749.787.718
tung3 2,624.677.615
wey5 4,374.457.575
a50 43,744.537.411
coorse3 2,624.677.324
re4 3,499.567.273
spoken2 1,749.787.176
braid2 1,749.787.083
aifter2 1,749.786.846
airts2 1,749.786.818
s17 14,873.146.699
cultural2 1,749.786.545
suin2 1,749.786.493
fowk6 5,249.346.469
line2 1,749.785.969
isna2 1,749.785.861
bodie2 1,749.785.840
bittie2 1,749.785.694
public2 1,749.785.575
dinna3 2,624.675.507
languages2 1,749.785.404
maks2 1,749.785.367
muckle4 3,499.565.107
forrit2 1,749.784.988
amang2 1,749.784.799
naethin2 1,749.784.679
thing3 2,624.674.662
lat2 1,749.784.635
siller2 1,749.784.521
tae15 13,123.364.392
brocht2 1,749.784.293
for2 1,749.784.276
ideologie2 1,749.78nan
faur2 1,749.784.192
guid4 3,499.564.171
sair2 1,749.784.070
no7 6,124.233.933
noo5 4,374.453.702
it21 18,372.703.697
whit6 5,249.343.622
ken4 3,499.563.019
wirds2 1,749.783.006
richt4 3,499.562.966
year3 2,624.672.872
years2 1,749.782.851
of4 3,499.562.638
fair2 1,749.782.489
they8 6,999.132.331
wis7 6,124.232.163
haes3 2,624.672.147
we8 6,999.132.142
ma2 1,749.782.098
see4 3,499.561.927
same2 1,749.781.918
ain3 2,624.671.910
wha2 1,749.781.866
on4 3,499.561.582
big2 1,749.781.581
weel3 2,624.671.577
fine2 1,749.781.569
bein2 1,749.781.349
nor2 1,749.781.342
leid2 1,749.781.338
there5 4,374.451.208
english2 1,749.781.144
as10 8,748.911.133
new2 1,749.781.085
and5 4,374.451.014
cam2 1,749.781.001
tak2 1,749.780.920
wi6 5,249.340.870
nae5 4,374.450.801
can3 2,624.670.755
ower4 3,499.560.689
sae3 2,624.670.677
then2 1,749.780.468
like2 1,749.780.372
here2 1,749.780.369
bit2 1,749.780.341
at6 5,249.340.272
its2 1,749.780.271
in20 17,497.810.261
hae2 1,749.780.188
aff2 1,749.780.148
the64 55,993.000.116
be5 4,374.450.106
some2 1,749.780.099
this5 4,374.450.090
up5 4,374.450.080
oor2 1,749.780.074
wee2 1,749.780.064
aye2 1,749.780.059
aboot3 2,624.670.052
that12 10,498.690.047
an30 26,246.720.018
or4 3,499.560.016
o23 20,122.480.014
oot5 4,374.450.008