A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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wee-windaes

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 291
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 170
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.712
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, scots, in, a, o, an, wi, tae, it, is,

List of texts in corpus

Whit is Scots?
wee-windaes.nls.uk (2018-06-19) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as prose (291 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
scots13 44,673.5443.427
throu4 13,745.7019.885
literary2 6,872.8516.940
english4 13,745.7015.986
robert2 6,872.8514.138
modren2 6,872.8512.691
european2 6,872.8512.588
gaelic3 10,309.2812.238
cuid2 6,872.859.026
leids2 6,872.858.723
in12 41,237.118.604
wirds2 6,872.857.903
bi3 10,309.287.853
fir2 6,872.856.095
leid2 6,872.855.711
micht2 6,872.855.367
day3 10,309.285.222
wi6 20,618.564.575
its2 6,872.853.742
be4 13,745.702.996
o10 34,364.262.253
as4 13,745.702.045
is4 13,745.702.019
mair2 6,872.852.014
or2 6,872.850.858
an10 34,364.260.780
a11 37,800.690.668
it5 17,182.130.649
and3 10,309.280.524
that4 13,745.700.397
wis2 6,872.850.332
tae5 17,182.130.275
on2 6,872.850.021
the17 58,419.240.002