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 106,060.6166.387
hid12 22,727.2745.427
shopping3 5,681.8235.983
hotel4 7,575.7634.757
christmas4 7,575.7630.735
ma14 26,515.1527.243
canterbury2 3,787.8826.538
holiday3 5,681.8224.921
gardens2 3,787.8824.813
wis20 37,878.7923.820
aready2 3,787.8821.985
it21 39,772.7321.861
lichts3 5,681.8220.752
got6 11,363.6419.160
di2 3,787.8817.371
heided2 3,787.8816.787
cos3 5,681.8216.121
late3 5,681.8215.714
hame5 9,469.7015.526
trip2 3,787.8814.413
train2 3,787.8814.127
tae25 47,348.4812.693
bed3 5,681.8212.374
shops2 3,787.8812.204
gled2 3,787.8811.780
there7 13,257.5811.725
grand2 3,787.8811.584
happy2 3,787.889.789
ane4 7,575.769.567
start2 3,787.889.061
ready2 3,787.888.894
so4 7,575.768.849
wint2 3,787.888.252
takin2 3,787.888.233
couple2 3,787.888.233
bonny2 3,787.887.951
richt4 7,575.767.617
get4 7,575.767.429
next2 3,787.887.324
came2 3,787.886.188
and9 17,045.455.958
cauld2 3,787.885.575
time4 7,575.765.446
than3 5,681.825.250
go2 3,787.885.145
days2 3,787.884.456
funnert2 3,787.88nan
ower4 7,575.764.154
fir2 3,787.883.955
didna2 3,787.883.877
an7 13,257.583.788
tak2 3,787.883.050
thocht2 3,787.882.821
say2 3,787.882.760
aboot4 7,575.762.649
that2 3,787.882.606
wid2 3,787.882.147
were2 3,787.881.987
be5 9,469.701.646
o7 13,257.581.604
jist2 3,787.881.357
fowk2 3,787.881.314
s2 3,787.881.222
oot4 7,575.761.156
on5 9,469.700.821
the26 49,242.420.816
day2 3,787.880.719
back2 3,787.880.621
i2 3,787.880.480
up3 5,681.820.415
like2 3,787.880.231
in7 13,257.580.196
nae2 3,787.880.151
me2 3,787.880.039
but2 3,787.880.002
wi4 7,575.760.001