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 13,774.1064.533
um7 19,283.7562.624
caul5 13,774.1058.426
james6 16,528.9351.207
braco3 8,264.4638.238
he18 49,586.7833.703
lord4 11,019.2830.981
teen4 11,019.2825.541
abidy2 5,509.6422.865
wis16 44,077.1322.793
banff2 5,509.6420.087
cad2 5,509.6419.553
hated2 5,509.6419.553
ere3 8,264.4618.290
affa4 11,019.2818.196
fiddle2 5,509.6417.773
die2 5,509.6416.003
caught2 5,509.6413.917
ti5 13,774.1013.139
stuck2 5,509.6412.919
folk3 8,264.4612.510
so4 11,019.2811.509
bade2 5,509.6411.404
money2 5,509.6410.718
loon2 5,509.6410.489
sang2 5,509.6410.344
hing2 5,509.6410.297
bit5 13,774.108.706
and8 22,038.578.019
time4 11,019.287.866
got3 8,264.467.835
fan2 5,509.647.709
en2 5,509.647.284
wee4 11,019.286.845
tae2 5,509.646.198
they5 13,774.105.572
didna2 5,509.645.173
his6 16,528.934.978
the12 33,057.854.926
bein2 5,509.644.852
een2 5,509.644.679
i6 16,528.934.624
doon3 8,264.463.631
awa2 5,509.642.999
like3 8,264.462.770
in10 27,548.212.762
is5 13,774.102.533
dungeons2 5,509.64nan
day2 5,509.641.578
ower2 5,509.641.240
maerkets2 5,509.64nan
it7 19,283.751.451
oot3 8,264.461.113
reeved2 5,509.64nan
at4 11,019.280.999
him2 5,509.640.855
that2 5,509.640.837
o10 27,548.210.793
fae2 5,509.640.760
aboot2 5,509.640.634
on3 8,264.460.241
a12 33,057.850.174
for2 5,509.640.001