A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McArthur, Kaydi

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 363
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 166
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.187
Tagged as MNA (Mid Northern A) dialect.
Top ten most common words - he, wis, the, a, o, in, and, it, um, i,

List of texts in corpus

Rich n Peer
Scots Hoose (2020) in Doric (Banff) dialect (MNA), categorised as prose (363 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
duff5 13,774.1064.672
um7 19,283.7562.818
caul5 13,774.1058.565
james6 16,528.9349.307
braco3 8,264.4638.321
he18 49,586.7833.450
lord4 11,019.2830.326
teen4 11,019.2825.650
wis16 44,077.1323.050
abidy2 5,509.6422.921
banff2 5,509.6420.142
hated2 5,509.6419.867
cad2 5,509.6419.609
affa4 11,019.2818.252
ere3 8,264.4618.146
fiddle2 5,509.6417.377
die2 5,509.6416.489
caught2 5,509.6414.094
ti5 13,774.1013.263
stuck2 5,509.6412.837
folk3 8,264.4612.494
so4 11,019.2811.578
bade2 5,509.6411.427
money2 5,509.6410.694
hing2 5,509.6410.519
loon2 5,509.6410.422
sang2 5,509.6410.398
bit5 13,774.108.719
and8 22,038.578.192
time4 11,019.287.938
got3 8,264.467.794
fan2 5,509.647.602
en2 5,509.647.235
wee4 11,019.286.837
tae2 5,509.646.252
they5 13,774.105.513
didna2 5,509.645.190
his6 16,528.934.917
bein2 5,509.644.881
the12 33,057.854.801
i6 16,528.934.781
een2 5,509.644.668
doon3 8,264.463.633
awa2 5,509.642.950
dungeons2 5,509.64nan
like3 8,264.462.844
in10 27,548.212.750
is5 13,774.102.535
day2 5,509.641.615
ower2 5,509.641.242
maerkets2 5,509.64nan
it7 19,283.751.491
oot3 8,264.461.120
reeved2 5,509.64nan
at4 11,019.280.992
him2 5,509.640.851
that2 5,509.640.844
fae2 5,509.640.795
o10 27,548.210.769
aboot2 5,509.640.622
on3 8,264.460.229
a12 33,057.850.167
for2 5,509.640.001