A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Anderson, Elizabeth

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 437
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 241
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.813
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - an, o, the, a, wis, in, he, his, at, scots,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001
Lallans Magazine (2001 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as newspaper (437 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
alistair6 13,729.9878.416
academy4 9,153.3245.618
aiberdeen5 11,441.6538.754
brainch3 6,864.9936.183
ears4 9,153.3235.778
retiral2 4,576.6627.353
taylor2 4,576.6625.628
hymns2 4,576.6622.179
mony5 11,441.6521.538
comatee3 6,864.9921.018
poetry3 6,864.9920.268
schools2 4,576.6619.126
friens2 4,576.6617.421
tuik3 6,864.9917.279
prose2 4,576.6617.252
an27 61,784.9016.347
enjoyed2 4,576.6615.866
books2 4,576.6615.866
wis14 32,036.6113.452
wide2 4,576.6612.632
society2 4,576.6612.481
stanes2 4,576.6612.481
scots7 16,018.3110.704
his9 20,594.9710.126
buik2 4,576.669.750
o19 43,478.268.550
he10 22,883.306.962
pairt2 4,576.666.076
efter3 6,864.995.892
gied2 4,576.665.782
bi3 6,864.995.728
at7 16,018.314.452
the16 36,613.274.125
muckle2 4,576.663.425
aa3 6,864.993.305
on6 13,729.982.989
ower3 6,864.992.704
tae5 11,441.652.522
gifted2 4,576.66nan
in11 25,171.622.198
of2 4,576.662.044
time2 4,576.661.345
been2 4,576.661.287
a16 36,613.270.748
wi2 4,576.660.575
and2 4,576.660.303
as2 4,576.660.190
i2 4,576.660.128
for3 6,864.990.115
up2 4,576.660.057