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 59,829.0681.486
fit8 34,188.0340.829
mak7 29,914.5337.860
we're4 17,094.0232.265
lat4 17,094.0226.705
information3 12,820.5126.167
fan4 17,094.0224.251
gie5 21,367.5224.007
sure3 12,820.5118.429
tak4 17,094.0216.909
need3 12,820.5114.405
ken4 17,094.0213.534
gweed2 8,547.0112.809
oor4 17,094.0212.598
fowk4 17,094.0212.308
bein3 12,820.5111.956
aa4 17,094.0210.723
somethin2 8,547.0110.378
fa2 8,547.0110.055
dee2 8,547.019.943
wi7 29,914.539.081
wye2 8,547.018.104
the5 21,367.527.561
yer3 12,820.516.681
ye5 21,367.526.355
it's2 8,547.015.963
we4 17,094.025.605
aboot3 12,820.514.197
if2 8,547.013.617
an11 47,008.553.563
nae2 8,547.011.742
it5 21,367.521.468
o3 12,820.510.800
be2 8,547.010.476
as2 8,547.010.206
at2 8,547.010.152
s2 8,547.010.029
tae5 21,367.520.000