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 13,774.1064.528
um7 19,283.7562.618
caul5 13,774.1058.421
james6 16,528.9351.201
braco3 8,264.4638.235
he18 49,586.7833.437
lord4 11,019.2830.800
teen4 11,019.2825.537
abidy2 5,509.6422.863
wis16 44,077.1322.769
banff2 5,509.6420.085
hated2 5,509.6419.809
cad2 5,509.6419.552
ere3 8,264.4618.211
affa4 11,019.2818.142
fiddle2 5,509.6417.771
die2 5,509.6416.432
caught2 5,509.6414.099
ti5 13,774.1013.135
stuck2 5,509.6412.917
folk3 8,264.4612.549
so4 11,019.2811.506
bade2 5,509.6411.370
money2 5,509.6410.716
hing2 5,509.6410.463
sang2 5,509.6410.414
loon2 5,509.6410.366
bit5 13,774.108.696
and8 22,038.578.105
time4 11,019.287.925
got3 8,264.467.877
fan2 5,509.647.559
en2 5,509.647.272
wee4 11,019.286.877
tae2 5,509.646.239
they5 13,774.105.533
didna2 5,509.645.139
the12 33,057.854.966
his6 16,528.934.913
bein2 5,509.644.890
i6 16,528.934.726
een2 5,509.644.641
doon3 8,264.463.644
awa2 5,509.642.942
like3 8,264.462.816
maerkets2 5,509.64nan
in10 27,548.212.758
is5 13,774.102.532
day2 5,509.641.603
ower2 5,509.641.228
dungeons2 5,509.64nan
it7 19,283.751.490
oot3 8,264.461.116
reeved2 5,509.64nan
at4 11,019.280.979
him2 5,509.640.845
that2 5,509.640.837
o10 27,548.210.781
fae2 5,509.640.780
aboot2 5,509.640.622
on3 8,264.460.234
a12 33,057.850.181
for2 5,509.640.002