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 100,628.93109.738
hen5 31,446.5445.837
len3 18,867.9233.949
een's2 12,578.6229.629
den3 18,867.9229.398
kenneth2 12,578.6228.444
caad3 18,867.9225.564
aabody3 18,867.9223.451
ben3 18,867.9220.118
wis9 56,603.7716.490
bit5 31,446.5415.975
wid3 18,867.9211.487
fa2 12,578.6211.463
him4 25,157.2310.890
aye3 18,867.929.840
the2 12,578.628.760
an10 62,893.086.335
fit2 12,578.626.248
he5 31,446.545.655
hid2 12,578.625.320
fowk2 12,578.624.993
they3 18,867.924.763
their2 12,578.624.551
wee2 12,578.623.874
a2 12,578.621.965
she2 12,578.621.234
and2 12,578.620.672