A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Fyall, Aitken

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 653
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 347
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.882
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, a, tae, o, i, wi, s, he, whit,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck
Lallans Magazine (2009-07-01) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (393 words)

Lallans 58 - The Wa-Ganging o the Meinister
Lallans Magazine (2001-03-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (260 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
losh8 12,251.1593.600
week8 12,251.1553.074
dis8 12,251.1534.302
juist8 12,251.1528.047
et4 6,125.5724.899
dae8 12,251.1523.042
yir4 6,125.5720.318
whit9 13,782.5418.414
cutty2 3,062.7918.412
ivery3 4,594.1818.282
he's3 4,594.1817.699
gaen3 4,594.1817.699
shud2 3,062.7914.388
gars2 3,062.7914.155
faith2 3,062.7912.095
yet3 4,594.1811.605
laird2 3,062.799.921
ve4 6,125.579.880
shair2 3,062.799.597
hiv3 4,594.189.337
ilk2 3,062.798.159
man4 6,125.577.798
noo5 7,656.977.645
claes2 3,062.797.133
i10 15,313.946.976
still3 4,594.185.951
braw2 3,062.795.948
canna2 3,062.795.500
wark2 3,062.795.059
wis2 3,062.794.403
s10 15,313.944.240
wi10 15,313.944.142
frae4 6,125.573.764
it3 4,594.183.740
are3 4,594.183.488
ma6 9,188.362.942
oor3 4,594.182.782
aw4 6,125.572.724
jist3 4,594.182.685
he10 15,313.942.647
gin2 3,062.792.592
mak2 3,062.792.471
hame2 3,062.792.376
bit4 6,125.572.322
there4 6,125.572.320
d3 4,594.182.209
muckle2 3,062.792.192
in6 9,188.362.051
than2 3,062.791.709
and2 3,062.791.550
ye6 9,188.361.465
richt2 3,062.791.172
his6 9,188.361.155
ay2 3,062.790.870
as6 9,188.360.869
is6 9,188.360.846
fur3 4,594.180.820
be5 7,656.970.778
the43 65,849.920.736
sae2 3,062.790.727
see2 3,062.790.691
her2 3,062.790.634
ae2 3,062.790.634
back2 3,062.790.296
mair2 3,062.790.272
a17 26,033.690.263
doon2 3,062.790.218
ower2 3,062.790.182
o12 18,376.720.176
up2 3,062.790.114
this2 3,062.790.109
an18 27,565.080.084
but3 4,594.180.080
tae15 22,970.900.067
we3 4,594.180.049
that7 10,719.750.046
nae2 3,062.790.010