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 12,251.1593.370
week8 12,251.1553.118
dis8 12,251.1534.108
juist8 12,251.1527.933
et4 6,125.5724.859
dae8 12,251.1522.996
yir4 6,125.5720.368
ivery3 4,594.1818.476
cutty2 3,062.7918.355
whit9 13,782.5418.269
gaen3 4,594.1817.739
he's3 4,594.1817.615
shud2 3,062.7914.843
gars2 3,062.7914.098
faith2 3,062.7912.039
yet3 4,594.1811.544
laird2 3,062.799.865
ve4 6,125.579.824
shair2 3,062.799.718
hiv3 4,594.189.258
ilk2 3,062.798.127
man4 6,125.577.810
noo5 7,656.977.746
claes2 3,062.797.132
i10 15,313.946.888
still3 4,594.185.983
braw2 3,062.795.896
canna2 3,062.795.448
wark2 3,062.795.046
wis2 3,062.794.508
s10 15,313.944.242
wi10 15,313.944.113
frae4 6,125.573.788
it3 4,594.183.740
are3 4,594.183.466
ma6 9,188.362.911
oor3 4,594.182.866
jist3 4,594.182.712
aw4 6,125.572.668
he10 15,313.942.643
gin2 3,062.792.568
mak2 3,062.792.475
hame2 3,062.792.396
there4 6,125.572.326
bit4 6,125.572.308
d3 4,594.182.241
muckle2 3,062.792.157
in6 9,188.362.044
than2 3,062.791.698
and2 3,062.791.586
ye6 9,188.361.494
richt2 3,062.791.154
his6 9,188.361.152
fur3 4,594.180.868
as6 9,188.360.866
ay2 3,062.790.851
is6 9,188.360.843
be5 7,656.970.770
sae2 3,062.790.728
see2 3,062.790.690
her2 3,062.790.664
the43 65,849.920.644
ae2 3,062.790.611
back2 3,062.790.281
mair2 3,062.790.277
a17 26,033.690.241
doon2 3,062.790.221
ower2 3,062.790.176
o12 18,376.720.169
up2 3,062.790.113
this2 3,062.790.104
an18 27,565.080.096
but3 4,594.180.081
tae15 22,970.900.069
we3 4,594.180.059
that7 10,719.750.048
nae2 3,062.790.010