A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lang, Charles

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 239
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 157
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.522
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, is, it, tae, will, fur, ae, be, mora,

List of texts in corpus

nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday
Association for Scottish Literature (2022-07-29 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (239 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
night's2 8,368.2029.774
maybe3 12,552.3022.247
i'll3 12,552.3021.300
buns2 8,368.2021.284
soup2 8,368.2018.047
will4 16,736.4016.408
cross2 8,368.2014.726
three3 12,552.3013.468
tuesday2 8,368.2013.402
take2 8,368.2011.673
ae4 16,736.4011.381
ur2 8,368.2011.300
n2 8,368.208.774
fur4 16,736.408.195
need2 8,368.208.030
is6 25,104.607.878
days2 8,368.207.427
mora3 12,552.30nan
hot2 8,368.2017.248
dae2 8,368.204.416
oan2 8,368.203.971
by2 8,368.203.463
it6 25,104.602.773
be3 12,552.301.906
aboot2 8,368.201.557
the18 75,313.811.229
in2 8,368.200.979
this2 8,368.200.961
oot2 8,368.200.771
a9 37,656.900.531
her2 8,368.200.415
ye2 8,368.200.342
i2 8,368.200.234
tae6 25,104.600.141
at2 8,368.200.130
that2 8,368.200.059