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 100,628.93109.862
hen5 31,446.5445.901
len3 18,867.9234.035
een's2 12,578.6229.686
den3 18,867.9229.484
kenneth2 12,578.6228.501
caad3 18,867.9225.205
aabody3 18,867.9223.537
ben3 18,867.9220.203
wis9 56,603.7716.659
bit5 31,446.5416.002
wid3 18,867.9211.568
fa2 12,578.6211.519
him4 25,157.2310.911
aye3 18,867.929.851
the2 12,578.628.629
an10 62,893.086.275
fit2 12,578.626.271
he5 31,446.545.658
hid2 12,578.625.372
fowk2 12,578.624.986
they3 18,867.924.750
their2 12,578.624.566
wee2 12,578.623.853
a2 12,578.621.992
she2 12,578.621.258
and2 12,578.620.687