Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lyttle, Helen

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 199
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 130
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.531
Tagged as PUL (Peninsular Ulster (Ards)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, o, a, is, an, but, s, it, as, we,

List of texts in corpus

Yarns 3 - Summer twa thousant an twenty three / A Shedda wi a soul
Ulster-Scots Community Network (2024-08-22) in Ulster (Bangor) dialect (PUL), categorised as poetry (199 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
television	2	10,050.25	23.169
er	3	15,075.38	22.070
drappin	2	10,050.25	18.779
summer	2	10,050.25	17.717
from	2	10,050.25	12.834
rin	2	10,050.25	12.417
tree	2	10,050.25	12.141
says	2	10,050.25	7.606
yin	2	10,050.25	6.797
still	2	10,050.25	6.758
is	5	25,125.63	6.576
heid	2	10,050.25	5.759
its	2	10,050.25	5.051
noo	2	10,050.25	3.945
but	3	15,075.38	3.707
we	3	15,075.38	3.540
wee	2	10,050.25	3.121
o	8	40,201.01	2.948
the	17	85,427.14	2.443
me	2	10,050.25	1.876
as	3	15,075.38	1.855
this	2	10,050.25	1.390
s	3	15,075.38	1.222
oot	2	10,050.25	1.171
on	2	10,050.25	0.404
an	4	20,100.50	0.274
a	7	35,175.88	0.222
it	3	15,075.38	0.175
wi	2	10,050.25	0.160
in	3	15,075.38	0.004
that	2	10,050.25	0.001