A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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wee-windaes

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 291
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 170
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.712
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, scots, in, a, o, an, wi, tae, it, is,

List of texts in corpus

Whit is Scots?
wee-windaes.nls.uk (2018-06-19) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (291 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
scots13 44,673.5443.415
throu4 13,745.7020.029
literary2 6,872.8516.995
english4 13,745.7015.893
robert2 6,872.8514.040
modren2 6,872.8512.642
gaelic3 10,309.2812.610
european2 6,872.8512.540
leids2 6,872.859.154
cuid2 6,872.858.862
in12 41,237.118.635
wirds2 6,872.857.856
bi3 10,309.287.836
fir2 6,872.856.061
leid2 6,872.856.027
micht2 6,872.855.388
day3 10,309.285.157
wi6 20,618.564.612
its2 6,872.853.790
be4 13,745.702.988
o10 34,364.262.304
as4 13,745.702.072
mair2 6,872.852.052
is4 13,745.702.021
or2 6,872.850.899
an10 34,364.260.862
a11 37,800.690.680
it5 17,182.130.624
and3 10,309.280.495
that4 13,745.700.399
wis2 6,872.850.348
tae5 17,182.130.263
on2 6,872.850.025
the17 58,419.240.000