A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Young, Clive

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 1,143
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 468
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.442
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, scots, an, is, o, it, in, scotland, s,

List of texts in corpus

Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots
The Sair Fecht (19-05-2016) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as blog (1,143 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
scots44 38,495.19135.001
creative13 11,373.58119.875
scotland18 15,748.0364.541
language16 13,998.2560.303
is27 23,622.0533.032
yiss3 2,624.6732.669
dialects4 3,499.5624.722
stannerts2 1,749.7823.501
stannert2 1,749.7823.501
forderin3 2,624.6721.746
dictionaries3 2,624.6721.328
defineetion2 1,749.7820.595
modren4 3,499.5620.155
dictionary3 2,624.6718.508
frae11 9,623.8017.834
tairm2 1,749.7817.799
policie2 1,749.7815.861
historie2 1,749.7815.566
mibbies2 1,749.7815.566
apairt3 2,624.6715.413
awbodie2 1,749.7815.292
naebodie2 1,749.7814.568
example3 2,624.6714.241
introduction2 1,749.7814.151
mair10 8,748.9113.646
kinna3 2,624.6713.630
media3 2,624.6713.577
linguistic3 2,624.6713.474
but14 12,248.4713.131
thon6 5,249.3412.852
writes2 1,749.7812.821
phrase2 1,749.7812.683
write3 2,624.6711.772
aw10 8,748.9111.683
scottish5 4,374.4511.615
scotlan2 1,749.7811.420
aften3 2,624.6711.376
awthin2 1,749.7811.323
en4 3,499.5611.143
writin3 2,624.6710.571
style2 1,749.7810.178
lallans2 1,749.7810.178
monie3 2,624.679.953
makkit2 1,749.789.192
jist7 6,124.239.167
census2 1,749.789.138
grammar2 1,749.789.033
education3 2,624.678.571
e4 3,499.568.550
government3 2,624.678.452
future2 1,749.788.119
fur9 7,874.027.955
policy2 1,749.787.773
tung3 2,624.677.692
wey5 4,374.457.616
coorse3 2,624.677.337
re4 3,499.567.277
a50 43,744.537.241
spoken2 1,749.787.230
braid2 1,749.787.076
aifter2 1,749.786.871
airts2 1,749.786.871
s17 14,873.146.697
cultural2 1,749.786.599
suin2 1,749.786.547
fowk6 5,249.346.451
line2 1,749.785.978
isna2 1,749.785.913
bodie2 1,749.785.829
bittie2 1,749.785.746
public2 1,749.785.627
dinna3 2,624.675.568
languages2 1,749.785.455
maks2 1,749.785.400
muckle4 3,499.565.180
forrit2 1,749.784.990
amang2 1,749.784.758
lat2 1,749.784.685
siller2 1,749.784.571
naethin2 1,749.784.571
thing3 2,624.674.495
tae15 13,123.364.414
brocht2 1,749.784.254
faur2 1,749.784.241
for2 1,749.784.188
sair2 1,749.784.119
guid4 3,499.564.101
no7 6,124.233.990
whit6 5,249.343.689
ideologie2 1,749.78nan
it21 18,372.703.698
noo5 4,374.453.622
wirds2 1,749.783.051
ken4 3,499.563.039
richt4 3,499.563.005
year3 2,624.672.897
years2 1,749.782.836
of4 3,499.562.677
fair2 1,749.782.507
they8 6,999.132.310
haes3 2,624.672.158
ma2 1,749.782.071
wis7 6,124.232.059
we8 6,999.132.050
same2 1,749.781.939
see4 3,499.561.930
ain3 2,624.671.913
wha2 1,749.781.826
on4 3,499.561.601
fine2 1,749.781.599
big2 1,749.781.512
weel3 2,624.671.507
leid2 1,749.781.370
bein2 1,749.781.342
nor2 1,749.781.322
there5 4,374.451.202
english2 1,749.781.171
as10 8,748.911.136
new2 1,749.781.106
cam2 1,749.781.025
and5 4,374.450.974
tak2 1,749.780.931
wi6 5,249.340.855
nae5 4,374.450.806
can3 2,624.670.765
ower4 3,499.560.706
sae3 2,624.670.676
then2 1,749.780.444
here2 1,749.780.367
like2 1,749.780.359
bit2 1,749.780.336
its2 1,749.780.272
at6 5,249.340.261
in20 17,497.810.257
hae2 1,749.780.204
aff2 1,749.780.148
some2 1,749.780.104
be5 4,374.450.102
this5 4,374.450.084
up5 4,374.450.078
the64 55,993.000.072
wee2 1,749.780.069
aye2 1,749.780.061
oor2 1,749.780.060
aboot3 2,624.670.052
that12 10,498.690.044
o23 20,122.480.017
or4 3,499.560.013
an30 26,246.720.011
oot5 4,374.450.009