A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Goodbrand Saunders, Donald

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 494
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 311
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.588
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, a, o, and, their, aa, they, in, or, an,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine
Lallans Magazine (2005-08-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (494 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
paradise4 8,097.1742.839
rottans2 4,048.5826.862
cheynge2 4,048.5822.309
their8 16,194.3321.831
blah2 4,048.5818.637
aa7 14,170.0415.864
yon4 8,097.1715.365
gates2 4,048.5814.448
adam2 4,048.5813.264
canna3 6,072.8712.018
ye're2 4,048.5811.580
they're2 4,048.5811.203
city2 4,048.5811.164
unco2 4,048.5811.086
hell2 4,048.5811.086
nou3 6,072.8711.005
eftir2 4,048.5810.044
our2 4,048.589.957
fear2 4,048.589.957
god2 4,048.589.205
nae6 12,145.758.254
less2 4,048.588.117
they7 14,170.047.996
nor3 6,072.877.778
deid2 4,048.587.644
or6 12,145.756.926
and9 18,218.626.877
warld2 4,048.586.192
doun2 4,048.585.674
fair2 4,048.585.279
maun2 4,048.585.031
through2 4,048.584.969
are3 6,072.874.767
me5 10,121.464.733
ken3 6,072.874.666
an6 12,145.754.516
some3 6,072.874.256
til2 4,048.583.848
tae5 10,121.463.765
come2 4,048.583.134
ye6 12,145.753.112
lang2 4,048.582.545
ower3 6,072.872.220
it3 6,072.871.661
a10 20,242.911.613
them2 4,048.581.293
i5 10,121.461.284
day2 4,048.580.882
frae2 4,048.580.868
that3 6,072.870.848
but3 6,072.870.520
hae2 4,048.580.486
in6 12,145.750.416
is4 8,097.170.273
tuim-wames2 4,048.58nan
for4 8,097.170.480
the31 62,753.040.213
mccreishies2 4,048.58nan
heine2 4,048.58nan
wi4 8,097.170.025
heinrich2 4,048.58nan
this2 4,048.580.006
up2 4,048.580.005
o10 20,242.910.005
on3 6,072.870.001