A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Grubb, Adrian

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 371
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 170
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.182
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, wis, tae, it, and, me, ma, then, jump,

List of texts in corpus

Bungee
Scots Hoose (2020) in Central (Kirkcaldy) dialect (SEC), categorised as prose (371 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
jump5 13,477.0952.233
awbudy3 8,086.2543.250
harness3 8,086.2536.295
feart4 10,781.6725.936
a31 83,557.9525.786
cord2 5,390.8422.833
pad2 5,390.8422.833
then6 16,172.5121.706
didny2 5,390.8421.402
launch2 5,390.8421.020
gonnae3 8,086.2520.460
wis15 40,431.2719.582
cos3 8,086.2518.321
seconds2 5,390.8417.585
me8 21,563.3417.111
group3 8,086.2517.035
went4 10,781.6716.978
rope2 5,390.8416.636
whin3 8,086.2516.615
faw2 5,390.8415.316
eh3 8,086.2514.296
really3 8,086.2513.997
ma8 21,563.3413.497
dain2 5,390.8413.126
want3 8,086.2511.416
er2 5,390.8410.635
dae4 10,781.6710.631
fir3 8,086.2510.046
looked2 5,390.848.974
and8 21,563.347.945
got3 8,086.257.677
was3 8,086.257.319
it11 29,649.607.213
last2 5,390.845.803
up5 13,477.095.422
tae15 40,431.275.047
made2 5,390.844.652
mind2 5,390.844.560
wiz2 5,390.844.208
pit2 5,390.843.911
first2 5,390.843.865
wee3 8,086.253.675
but4 10,781.673.067
said2 5,390.842.516
on5 13,477.092.391
jist2 5,390.842.237
back2 5,390.841.415
mair2 5,390.841.371
whit2 5,390.841.292
they3 8,086.251.287
doon2 5,390.841.265
aw2 5,390.841.061
there2 5,390.840.875
that5 13,477.090.441
the19 51,212.940.310
we2 5,390.840.154
oot2 5,390.840.116
in5 13,477.090.115
at2 5,390.840.065
as2 5,390.840.035
ye2 5,390.840.000