A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Connelly, Kevin

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 318
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 194
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.639
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, tae, an, ma, i, it, doun, like, see,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 104 - Kirnin Watter and Merry Andra
Lallans Magazine (2024-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (150 words)
Lallans 102 - Epiphany and Doun the Pit
Lallans Magazine (2023-07 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (168 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
dad4 12,578.6230.614
doun5 15,723.2727.044
gifts2 6,289.3120.970
ma9 28,301.8919.286
we'll2 6,289.3113.689
i8 25,157.2311.214
lost2 6,289.3111.137
about2 6,289.319.846
like5 15,723.279.708
see4 12,578.629.552
it's3 9,433.969.533
mak3 9,433.969.419
aa4 12,578.628.248
men2 6,289.317.785
nou2 6,289.317.473
didnae2 6,289.316.985
a18 56,603.776.546
fur4 12,578.626.305
gaun2 6,289.315.772
syne2 6,289.315.352
day3 9,433.964.785
year2 6,289.314.705
tae13 40,880.504.510
pit2 6,289.314.430
whan2 6,289.313.629
beirin2 6,289.31nan
oan2 6,289.313.037
me3 9,433.962.554
epiphany2 6,289.31nan
o3 9,433.962.481
but3 9,433.961.802
hae2 6,289.311.417
it5 15,723.270.392
an10 31,446.540.384
ye2 6,289.310.047
for2 6,289.310.025
the18 56,603.770.009