A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Fyall, Aitken

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 653
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 347
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.882
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, a, tae, o, i, wi, s, he, whit,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck
Lallans Magazine (2009-07-01) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (393 words)

Lallans 58 - The Wa-Ganging o the Meinister
Lallans Magazine (2001-03-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (260 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
losh8 12,251.1593.404
week8 12,251.1552.880
dis8 12,251.1534.192
juist8 12,251.1528.220
et4 6,125.5724.875
dae8 12,251.1522.829
yir4 6,125.5720.385
ivery3 4,594.1818.561
cutty2 3,062.7918.363
whit9 13,782.5418.113
he's3 4,594.1817.752
gaen3 4,594.1817.752
shud2 3,062.7914.851
gars2 3,062.7914.106
faith2 3,062.7911.981
yet3 4,594.1811.598
laird2 3,062.799.873
shair2 3,062.799.726
ve4 6,125.579.411
hiv3 4,594.189.392
ilk2 3,062.798.159
man4 6,125.577.722
noo5 7,656.977.706
claes2 3,062.797.157
i10 15,313.946.741
still3 4,594.186.007
braw2 3,062.795.904
canna2 3,062.795.456
wark2 3,062.795.006
wis2 3,062.794.484
wi10 15,313.944.190
s10 15,313.944.032
frae4 6,125.573.855
it3 4,594.183.815
are3 4,594.183.359
oor3 4,594.182.889
jist3 4,594.182.785
he10 15,313.942.714
ma6 9,188.362.608
aw4 6,125.572.608
gin2 3,062.792.570
mak2 3,062.792.536
hame2 3,062.792.388
bit4 6,125.572.320
there4 6,125.572.301
d3 4,594.182.218
muckle2 3,062.792.185
in6 9,188.362.034
than2 3,062.791.654
and2 3,062.791.615
ye6 9,188.361.449
his6 9,188.361.185
richt2 3,062.791.169
as6 9,188.360.893
ay2 3,062.790.856
is6 9,188.360.848
fur3 4,594.180.821
be5 7,656.970.773
sae2 3,062.790.739
see2 3,062.790.687
the43 65,849.920.663
her2 3,062.790.637
ae2 3,062.790.606
mair2 3,062.790.290
back2 3,062.790.280
a17 26,033.690.252
doon2 3,062.790.217
ower2 3,062.790.183
o12 18,376.720.158
an18 27,565.080.126
up2 3,062.790.108
this2 3,062.790.105
tae15 22,970.900.077
but3 4,594.180.073
we3 4,594.180.065
that7 10,719.750.048
nae2 3,062.790.011