A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Ritchie, John

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 653
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 278
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.349
Tagged as MNB (Mid Northern B) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, i, ma, it, and, the, tae, wis, on, was,

List of texts in corpus

Fishin in the Findhorn
Scots Hoose (2020) in Doric (Forres) dialect (MNB), categorised as prose (653 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
ma31 47,473.2092.659
i33 50,535.9984.429
and28 42,879.0257.710
one7 10,719.7543.519
fish6 9,188.3639.892
it29 44,410.4134.925
was9 13,782.5431.675
river4 6,125.5726.863
so8 12,251.1524.593
adrenaline2 3,062.7923.962
carried2 3,062.7918.356
fishing2 3,062.7917.741
wis20 30,627.8717.720
to7 10,719.7517.720
photo2 3,062.7917.465
chuffed2 3,062.7917.208
rod2 3,062.7916.739
fan4 6,125.5716.244
didna5 7,656.9715.937
wrapped2 3,062.7914.844
warm3 4,594.1814.841
put3 4,594.1814.335
shakin2 3,062.7914.214
didie5 7,656.97nan
an4 6,125.5714.021
hour2 3,062.7913.987
take3 4,594.1813.100
down2 3,062.7912.691
got5 7,656.9712.388
next3 4,594.1812.092
bigger2 3,062.7911.845
a35 53,598.7710.958
on12 18,376.7210.430
water2 3,062.7910.098
gan2 3,062.799.181
hid5 7,656.979.122
wind2 3,062.798.910
other2 3,062.797.923
line2 3,062.797.879
tae25 38,284.847.238
looked2 3,062.796.860
came2 3,062.795.417
see4 6,125.574.839
the26 39,816.234.512
then3 4,594.184.290
fair2 3,062.794.289
dide2 3,062.79nan
fit3 4,594.184.320
went2 3,062.793.943
face2 3,062.793.860
aboot5 7,656.973.377
big2 3,062.793.196
oot6 9,188.362.888
that3 4,594.182.314
first2 3,062.792.056
in6 9,188.362.041
this5 7,656.971.953
up5 7,656.971.946
ane2 3,062.791.896
than2 3,062.791.654
he3 4,594.181.527
ower3 4,594.181.252
ken2 3,062.791.202
his2 3,062.790.957
there3 4,594.180.838
wi3 4,594.180.833
by2 3,062.790.760
at3 4,594.180.373
is5 7,656.970.219
doon2 3,062.790.217
him2 3,062.790.040
me2 3,062.790.010
as4 6,125.570.000