A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Bowie, Tyler

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 580
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 262
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.214
Tagged as MNB (Mid Northern B) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, ma, i, wis, tae, and, hid, me, on,

List of texts in corpus

Stookie
Scots Hoose (2020) in Doric (Forres) dialect (MNB), categorised as prose (580 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
ma25 43,103.4570.226
messages6 10,344.8353.336
i23 39,655.1748.889
hid10 17,241.3832.640
wis23 39,655.1728.992
gaen4 6,896.5526.989
and17 29,310.3424.307
tea4 6,896.5522.444
fancied2 3,448.2820.989
stookie2 3,448.2820.453
a37 63,793.1018.306
am4 6,896.5518.265
airm3 5,172.4118.015
porridge2 3,448.2817.681
fridge2 3,448.2817.439
fan4 6,896.5517.150
shop3 5,172.4116.948
heided2 3,448.2816.413
hungry2 3,448.2814.924
mince2 3,448.2814.141
got5 8,620.6913.444
looked3 5,172.4113.279
next3 5,172.4112.770
fir4 6,896.5512.146
door4 6,896.5511.254
hospital2 3,448.2810.984
me8 13,793.1010.837
there7 12,068.9710.669
milk2 3,448.2810.441
press2 3,448.2810.327
eat2 3,448.289.799
aifter2 3,448.289.425
couldna2 3,448.289.251
fair3 5,172.419.234
warm2 3,448.288.774
o4 6,896.557.236
sure2 3,448.287.222
aroon2 3,448.287.064
feet2 3,448.286.563
bed2 3,448.286.368
hame3 5,172.416.092
wisnae2 3,448.286.091
pit3 5,172.415.707
an7 12,068.975.138
keep2 3,448.284.567
were3 5,172.414.368
on8 13,793.104.105
roon2 3,448.284.085
thing2 3,448.284.013
doon4 6,896.553.804
aff3 5,172.413.767
ower4 6,896.553.632
some3 5,172.413.514
them3 5,172.412.968
tae18 31,034.482.267
in5 8,620.692.186
heid2 3,448.282.179
fit2 3,448.282.027
so2 3,448.281.938
awa2 3,448.281.637
of2 3,448.281.237
fowk2 3,448.281.092
fae3 5,172.410.957
oot4 6,896.550.840
intae2 3,448.280.790
the29 50,000.000.748
back2 3,448.280.458
she2 3,448.280.381
up3 5,172.410.248
but3 5,172.410.212
for4 6,896.550.159
aboot2 3,448.280.044
wi4 6,896.550.024
at4 6,896.550.022
it7 12,068.970.003