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 59,829.0680.819
fit8 34,188.0340.478
mak7 29,914.5337.558
we're4 17,094.0232.229
lat4 17,094.0226.769
information3 12,820.5126.147
gie5 21,367.5224.088
fan4 17,094.0224.016
sure3 12,820.5118.352
tak4 17,094.0216.840
need3 12,820.5114.539
ken4 17,094.0213.485
gweed2 8,547.0112.743
oor4 17,094.0212.408
fowk4 17,094.0212.202
bein3 12,820.5111.994
aa4 17,094.0210.407
somethin2 8,547.0110.365
fa2 8,547.0110.032
dee2 8,547.019.910
wi7 29,914.539.032
wye2 8,547.018.093
the5 21,367.527.438
yer3 12,820.516.698
ye5 21,367.526.378
it's2 8,547.016.003
we4 17,094.025.481
aboot3 12,820.514.167
if2 8,547.013.670
an11 47,008.553.403
nae2 8,547.011.737
it5 21,367.521.504
o3 12,820.510.823
be2 8,547.010.478
as2 8,547.010.200
at2 8,547.010.151
s2 8,547.010.039
tae5 21,367.520.000