A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Goodbrand Saunders, Donald

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 494
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 311
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.588
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, o, and, their, aa, they, in, or, an,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine
Lallans Magazine (2005-08-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (494 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
paradise4 8,097.1742.741
rottans2 4,048.5826.813
cheynge2 4,048.5822.260
their8 16,194.3321.856
blah2 4,048.5818.588
aa7 14,170.0416.400
yon4 8,097.1715.334
gates2 4,048.5814.492
adam2 4,048.5813.216
canna3 6,072.8711.948
city2 4,048.5811.621
ye're2 4,048.5811.577
they're2 4,048.5811.195
nou3 6,072.8711.063
unco2 4,048.5811.038
hell2 4,048.5810.999
fear2 4,048.5810.055
eftir2 4,048.589.996
our2 4,048.589.852
god2 4,048.588.975
nae6 12,145.758.273
less2 4,048.588.176
they7 14,170.048.046
nor3 6,072.877.884
deid2 4,048.587.644
or6 12,145.757.094
and9 18,218.626.718
warld2 4,048.586.147
doun2 4,048.585.646
fair2 4,048.585.258
maun2 4,048.585.009
through2 4,048.584.898
ken3 6,072.874.697
are3 6,072.874.625
me5 10,121.464.518
an6 12,145.754.304
some3 6,072.874.234
til2 4,048.583.917
tae5 10,121.463.711
come2 4,048.583.113
ye6 12,145.753.092
lang2 4,048.582.559
ower3 6,072.872.224
it3 6,072.871.707
a10 20,242.911.591
them2 4,048.581.326
i5 10,121.461.205
frae2 4,048.580.903
day2 4,048.580.854
that3 6,072.870.843
hae2 4,048.580.512
but3 6,072.870.504
for4 8,097.170.482
heine2 4,048.58nan
in6 12,145.750.409
is4 8,097.170.274
tuim-wames2 4,048.58nan
mccreishies2 4,048.58nan
the31 62,753.040.180
wi4 8,097.170.028
this2 4,048.580.007
heinrich2 4,048.58nan
up2 4,048.580.006
o10 20,242.910.002
on3 6,072.870.000