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 13,774.1064.549
um7 19,283.7562.647
caul5 13,774.1058.442
james6 16,528.9351.226
braco3 8,264.4638.247
he18 49,586.7833.682
lord4 11,019.2830.993
teen4 11,019.2825.553
abidy2 5,509.6422.871
wis16 44,077.1322.833
banff2 5,509.6420.093
cad2 5,509.6419.560
hated2 5,509.6419.560
ere3 8,264.4618.300
affa4 11,019.2818.208
fiddle2 5,509.6417.779
die2 5,509.6416.010
caught2 5,509.6413.924
ti5 13,774.1013.154
stuck2 5,509.6412.879
folk3 8,264.4612.520
so4 11,019.2811.515
bade2 5,509.6411.410
money2 5,509.6410.570
loon2 5,509.6410.496
sang2 5,509.6410.351
hing2 5,509.6410.257
bit5 13,774.108.716
and8 22,038.578.036
time4 11,019.287.877
got3 8,264.467.843
fan2 5,509.647.715
en2 5,509.647.290
wee4 11,019.286.840
tae2 5,509.646.196
they5 13,774.105.548
didna2 5,509.645.179
his6 16,528.934.969
the12 33,057.854.931
bein2 5,509.644.857
een2 5,509.644.685
i6 16,528.934.634
doon3 8,264.463.632
awa2 5,509.643.004
like3 8,264.462.772
in10 27,548.212.768
is5 13,774.102.538
dungeons2 5,509.64nan
day2 5,509.641.580
ower2 5,509.641.244
maerkets2 5,509.64nan
it7 19,283.751.447
oot3 8,264.461.111
reeved2 5,509.64nan
at4 11,019.280.998
him2 5,509.640.854
that2 5,509.640.840
o10 27,548.210.801
fae2 5,509.640.756
aboot2 5,509.640.634
on3 8,264.460.244
a12 33,057.850.174
for2 5,509.640.001