A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Robertson, W. F.

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 159
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 84
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.893
Tagged as DOR (General Northern) dialect.
Top ten most common words - ken, an, wis, he, hen, bit, him, den, they, len,

List of texts in corpus

Tales Fae The Doric Side - Fit Een's Ken?
Doric Books (2023-06-17 ) in Doric dialect (DOR), categorised as poetry (159 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
ken16 100,628.93110.067
hen5 31,446.5445.622
len3 18,867.9234.202
een's2 12,578.6229.637
den3 18,867.9229.410
kenneth2 12,578.6227.545
caad3 18,867.9225.693
aabody3 18,867.9223.464
ben3 18,867.9220.223
wis9 56,603.7716.529
bit5 31,446.5415.998
fa2 12,578.6211.541
wid3 18,867.9211.523
him4 25,157.2310.920
aye3 18,867.9210.032
the2 12,578.628.733
an10 62,893.086.464
fit2 12,578.626.354
he5 31,446.545.715
hid2 12,578.625.328
fowk2 12,578.625.037
they3 18,867.924.773
their2 12,578.624.572
wee2 12,578.623.855
a2 12,578.621.979
she2 12,578.621.209
and2 12,578.620.661