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 47,473.2092.689
i33 50,535.9984.505
and28 42,879.0257.780
one7 10,719.7543.541
fish6 9,188.3639.911
it29 44,410.4134.894
was9 13,782.5431.702
river4 6,125.5726.876
so8 12,251.1524.604
adrenaline2 3,062.7923.968
carried2 3,062.7918.362
wis20 30,627.8717.764
fishing2 3,062.7917.747
to7 10,719.7517.740
photo2 3,062.7917.472
chuffed2 3,062.7917.215
rod2 3,062.7916.745
fan4 6,125.5716.256
didna5 7,656.9715.952
warm3 4,594.1814.850
wrapped2 3,062.7914.716
put3 4,594.1814.344
didie5 7,656.97nan
shakin2 3,062.7914.220
an4 6,125.5714.000
hour2 3,062.7913.994
take3 4,594.1813.054
down2 3,062.7912.697
got5 7,656.9712.403
next3 4,594.1812.055
bigger2 3,062.7911.851
a35 53,598.7710.960
on12 18,376.7210.456
water2 3,062.7910.105
gan2 3,062.799.187
hid5 7,656.979.048
wind2 3,062.798.916
other2 3,062.797.929
line2 3,062.797.885
tae25 38,284.847.242
looked2 3,062.796.833
came2 3,062.795.423
see4 6,125.574.841
the26 39,816.234.518
fit3 4,594.184.328
fair2 3,062.794.295
then3 4,594.184.280
went2 3,062.793.929
dide2 3,062.79nan
face2 3,062.793.865
aboot5 7,656.973.377
big2 3,062.793.172
oot6 9,188.362.884
that3 4,594.182.319
first2 3,062.792.061
in6 9,188.362.035
this5 7,656.971.956
up5 7,656.971.941
ane2 3,062.791.900
than2 3,062.791.656
he3 4,594.181.531
ower3 4,594.181.257
ken2 3,062.791.206
his2 3,062.790.960
there3 4,594.180.836
wi3 4,594.180.832
by2 3,062.790.759
at3 4,594.180.374
is5 7,656.970.221
doon2 3,062.790.218
him2 3,062.790.040
me2 3,062.790.010
as4 6,125.570.000