Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Philp, George

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 368
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 227
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.621
Tagged as ABN (Aberdeen) dialect.
Top ten most common words - an, the, i, o, ma, ye, a, in, wi, and,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 67 - Thochts anent Sangschaw and Penny Wheep
Lallans Magazine (2005-09-01 ) in Doric dialect (ABN), categorised as poetry (368 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
wheep	3	8,152.17	38.241
sangschaw	3	8,152.17	35.586
i	14	38,043.48	29.173
beuks	3	8,152.17	28.978
beikin	2	5,434.78	28.042
ma	11	29,891.30	24.615
penny	3	8,152.17	23.528
an	25	67,934.78	18.129
macdiarmid	2	5,434.78	17.619
intil	3	8,152.17	14.194
bairn	2	5,434.78	8.483
licht	2	5,434.78	7.889
its	3	8,152.17	6.470
thir	2	5,434.78	6.442
fair	2	5,434.78	6.347
yon	2	5,434.78	6.202
til	2	5,434.78	4.858
o	14	38,043.48	4.406
come	2	5,434.78	4.103
frae	3	8,152.17	4.068
tae	3	8,152.17	4.065
a	5	13,586.96	3.997
ye	5	13,586.96	3.251
had	2	5,434.78	2.541
by	2	5,434.78	2.136
scots	3	8,152.17	1.748
aa	2	5,434.78	1.563
rothiemurchus	2	5,434.78	nan
wi	5	13,586.96	1.488
mair	2	5,434.78	1.389
on	4	10,869.57	1.066
wis	2	5,434.78	0.945
and	4	10,869.57	0.860
nae	2	5,434.78	0.683
the	23	62,500.00	0.143
in	5	13,586.96	0.102
that	4	10,869.57	0.036