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 59,829.0681.365
fit8 34,188.0340.381
mak7 29,914.5337.578
we're4 17,094.0232.181
lat4 17,094.0226.655
information3 12,820.5126.061
gie5 21,367.5224.124
fan4 17,094.0223.926
sure3 12,820.5118.341
tak4 17,094.0216.802
need3 12,820.5114.480
ken4 17,094.0213.456
gweed2 8,547.0112.687
oor4 17,094.0212.558
fowk4 17,094.0212.218
bein3 12,820.5112.008
aa4 17,094.0210.507
somethin2 8,547.0110.339
fa2 8,547.019.977
dee2 8,547.019.908
wi7 29,914.539.002
wye2 8,547.018.038
the5 21,367.527.593
yer3 12,820.516.765
ye5 21,367.526.422
it's2 8,547.015.950
we4 17,094.025.564
aboot3 12,820.514.167
if2 8,547.013.679
an11 47,008.553.453
nae2 8,547.011.733
it5 21,367.521.503
o3 12,820.510.814
be2 8,547.010.475
as2 8,547.010.199
at2 8,547.010.147
s2 8,547.010.039
tae5 21,367.520.000