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 47,473.2095.637
i33 50,535.9985.616
and28 42,879.0258.441
one7 10,719.7543.784
fish6 9,188.3640.056
it29 44,410.4135.235
was9 13,782.5430.734
river4 6,125.5726.973
so8 12,251.1524.731
adrenaline2 3,062.7924.018
to7 10,719.7518.161
carried2 3,062.7918.092
wis20 30,627.8718.000
fishing2 3,062.7917.796
photo2 3,062.7917.521
chuffed2 3,062.7917.264
rod2 3,062.7916.794
fan4 6,125.5716.030
didna5 7,656.9715.980
put3 4,594.1814.922
warm3 4,594.1814.846
didie5 7,656.97nan
wrapped2 3,062.7914.765
shakin2 3,062.7914.509
an4 6,125.5714.406
take3 4,594.1814.080
hour2 3,062.7913.934
down2 3,062.7912.370
got5 7,656.9712.321
next3 4,594.1812.217
bigger2 3,062.7911.714
a35 53,598.7710.881
on12 18,376.7210.298
water2 3,062.7910.233
hid5 7,656.979.149
wind2 3,062.799.051
gan2 3,062.798.849
line2 3,062.798.066
other2 3,062.798.020
tae25 38,284.847.137
looked2 3,062.796.831
came2 3,062.795.393
see4 6,125.574.854
the26 39,816.234.347
fair2 3,062.794.315
then3 4,594.184.240
fit3 4,594.184.223
face2 3,062.793.951
went2 3,062.793.900
aboot5 7,656.973.337
big2 3,062.793.134
oot6 9,188.362.905
that3 4,594.182.328
first2 3,062.792.102
in6 9,188.362.052
this5 7,656.971.938
ane2 3,062.791.929
up5 7,656.971.913
he3 4,594.181.573
dide2 3,062.79nan
than2 3,062.791.711
ower3 4,594.181.254
ken2 3,062.791.190
his2 3,062.790.983
wi3 4,594.180.849
there3 4,594.180.847
by2 3,062.790.731
at3 4,594.180.378
is5 7,656.970.220
doon2 3,062.790.218
him2 3,062.790.039
me2 3,062.790.003
as4 6,125.570.000