Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Lamb, Darcie

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 240
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 130
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.846
Tagged as SEC ((South) East Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, wis, aw, and, tae, ma, first, there, in,

List of texts in corpus

T in the Park
Scots Hoose (2020) in Central (Kirkcaldy) dialect (SEC), categorised as prose (240 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
pure	3	12,500.00	22.839
aw	7	29,166.67	22.538
act	3	12,500.00	22.221
stone	2	8,333.33	21.024
nut	2	8,333.33	19.176
roses	2	8,333.33	18.891
breakfast	2	8,333.33	17.920
sangs	2	8,333.33	16.200
first	4	16,666.67	15.917
she's	2	8,333.33	15.740
bus	2	8,333.33	13.523
a	18	75,000.00	12.381
people	2	8,333.33	11.424
felt	2	8,333.33	9.879
git	2	8,333.33	9.230
heard	2	8,333.33	8.629
best	2	8,333.33	8.259
wis	8	33,333.33	8.144
go	2	8,333.33	8.087
oan	3	12,500.00	8.066
fair	2	8,333.33	7.964
the	25	104,166.67	7.737
wiz	2	8,333.33	5.745
ma	4	16,666.67	5.121
when	2	8,333.33	4.843
so	2	8,333.33	4.786
there	3	12,500.00	4.754
and	5	20,833.33	4.724
were	2	8,333.33	4.468
cara	2	8,333.33	nan
some	2	8,333.33	3.865
jist	2	8,333.33	3.592
their	2	8,333.33	3.189
time	2	8,333.33	3.052
day	2	8,333.33	2.803
doon	2	8,333.33	2.447
alessia	2	8,333.33	nan
her	3	12,500.00	1.828
aboot	2	8,333.33	1.547
me	2	8,333.33	1.384
up	2	8,333.33	0.941
we	2	8,333.33	0.843
in	3	12,500.00	0.162
tae	5	20,833.33	0.005