A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Riddell, Conor

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 528
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 222
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.378
Tagged as MNB (Mid Northern B) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, tae, it, wis, ma, hid, and, o, in,

List of texts in corpus

San Diego
Scots Hoose (2020) in Doric (Forres) dialect (MNB), categorised as prose (528 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
a56 106,060.6166.394
hid12 22,727.2745.224
shopping3 5,681.8235.993
hotel4 7,575.7634.770
christmas4 7,575.7630.748
ma14 26,515.1527.255
canterbury2 3,787.8826.544
holiday3 5,681.8224.930
gardens2 3,787.8824.819
wis20 37,878.7923.868
aready2 3,787.8821.992
it21 39,772.7321.840
lichts3 5,681.8220.762
got6 11,363.6419.178
di2 3,787.8817.377
heided2 3,787.8816.793
cos3 5,681.8216.130
late3 5,681.8215.723
hame5 9,469.7015.530
trip2 3,787.8814.419
train2 3,787.8814.133
tae25 47,348.4812.698
bed3 5,681.8212.383
shops2 3,787.8812.211
gled2 3,787.8811.786
there7 13,257.5811.718
grand2 3,787.8811.590
happy2 3,787.889.795
ane4 7,575.769.579
start2 3,787.889.067
ready2 3,787.888.877
so4 7,575.768.854
wint2 3,787.888.258
takin2 3,787.888.239
couple2 3,787.888.239
bonny2 3,787.887.957
richt4 7,575.767.627
get4 7,575.767.430
next2 3,787.887.300
came2 3,787.886.194
and9 17,045.455.974
cauld2 3,787.885.581
time4 7,575.765.456
than3 5,681.825.254
go2 3,787.885.128
days2 3,787.884.462
funnert2 3,787.88nan
ower4 7,575.764.163
fir2 3,787.883.960
didna2 3,787.883.882
an7 13,257.583.777
tak2 3,787.883.056
thocht2 3,787.882.826
say2 3,787.882.758
aboot4 7,575.762.649
that2 3,787.882.610
wid2 3,787.882.152
were2 3,787.881.990
be5 9,469.701.645
o7 13,257.581.591
jist2 3,787.881.353
fowk2 3,787.881.318
s2 3,787.881.229
oot4 7,575.761.153
on5 9,469.700.827
the26 49,242.420.819
day2 3,787.880.720
back2 3,787.880.617
i2 3,787.880.477
up3 5,681.820.413
like2 3,787.880.231
in7 13,257.580.194
nae2 3,787.880.151
me2 3,787.880.039
but2 3,787.880.002
wi4 7,575.760.001