A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Robertson, W. F.

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 159
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 84
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.893
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - ken, an, wis, he, hen, bit, him, den, they, len,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - Fit Een's Ken?
Doric Books (2023-06-17 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (159 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
ken16 100,628.93110.016
hen5 31,446.5445.606
len3 18,867.9234.192
een's2 12,578.6229.630
den3 18,867.9229.401
kenneth2 12,578.6227.538
caad3 18,867.9225.683
aabody3 18,867.9223.454
ben3 18,867.9220.213
wis9 56,603.7716.505
bit5 31,446.5415.986
fa2 12,578.6211.535
wid3 18,867.9211.514
him4 25,157.2310.924
aye3 18,867.9210.053
the2 12,578.628.729
an10 62,893.086.454
fit2 12,578.626.348
he5 31,446.545.720
hid2 12,578.625.360
fowk2 12,578.625.031
they3 18,867.924.789
their2 12,578.624.572
wee2 12,578.623.857
a2 12,578.621.979
she2 12,578.621.207
and2 12,578.620.658