A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Banff Academy

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 234
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 119
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.966
Tagged as MNA (Mid Northern A) dialect.
Top ten most common words - us, an, fit, wi, mak, it, gie, the, ye, tae,

List of texts in corpus

Aiberdeenshire Bairns an Young Fowk’s Chairter
GIRFEC (2020-10) in Doric (Banff) dialect (MNA), categorised as prose (234 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
us14 59,829.0681.483
fit8 34,188.0340.804
mak7 29,914.5337.838
we're4 17,094.0232.252
lat4 17,094.0226.692
information3 12,820.5126.157
fan4 17,094.0224.238
gie5 21,367.5223.991
sure3 12,820.5118.470
tak4 17,094.0216.897
need3 12,820.5114.395
ken4 17,094.0213.522
gweed2 8,547.0112.803
oor4 17,094.0212.591
fowk4 17,094.0212.296
bein3 12,820.5111.946
aa4 17,094.0210.711
somethin2 8,547.0110.387
fa2 8,547.0110.048
dee2 8,547.019.937
wi7 29,914.539.076
wye2 8,547.018.098
the5 21,367.527.556
yer3 12,820.516.684
ye5 21,367.526.375
it's2 8,547.015.957
we4 17,094.025.604
aboot3 12,820.514.197
if2 8,547.013.616
an11 47,008.553.554
nae2 8,547.011.743
it5 21,367.521.471
o3 12,820.510.806
be2 8,547.010.476
as2 8,547.010.209
at2 8,547.010.153
s2 8,547.010.030
tae5 21,367.520.000