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 47,473.2095.365
i33 50,535.9985.203
and28 42,879.0258.071
one7 10,719.7543.586
fish6 9,188.3639.978
it29 44,410.4135.231
was9 13,782.5431.011
river4 6,125.5726.859
so8 12,251.1524.586
adrenaline2 3,062.7923.960
carried2 3,062.7918.354
to7 10,719.7518.060
fishing2 3,062.7917.739
wis20 30,627.8717.694
photo2 3,062.7917.464
chuffed2 3,062.7917.206
rod2 3,062.7916.737
fan4 6,125.5715.943
didna5 7,656.9715.848
put3 4,594.1814.914
warm3 4,594.1814.838
didie5 7,656.97nan
wrapped2 3,062.7914.707
shakin2 3,062.7914.452
an4 6,125.5714.276
take3 4,594.1813.996
hour2 3,062.7913.877
down2 3,062.7912.689
got5 7,656.9712.458
next3 4,594.1812.182
bigger2 3,062.7911.719
a35 53,598.7711.044
on12 18,376.7210.350
water2 3,062.7910.177
gan2 3,062.799.087
hid5 7,656.979.030
wind2 3,062.798.996
line2 3,062.798.057
other2 3,062.797.988
tae25 38,284.847.162
looked2 3,062.796.777
came2 3,062.795.363
see4 6,125.574.850
the26 39,816.234.563
then3 4,594.184.309
fair2 3,062.794.295
fit3 4,594.184.194
dide2 3,062.79nan
went2 3,062.793.948
face2 3,062.793.909
aboot5 7,656.973.337
big2 3,062.793.219
oot6 9,188.362.896
that3 4,594.182.314
first2 3,062.792.070
in6 9,188.362.045
this5 7,656.971.960
up5 7,656.971.919
ane2 3,062.791.903
than2 3,062.791.699
he3 4,594.181.575
ower3 4,594.181.236
ken2 3,062.791.181
his2 3,062.790.985
wi3 4,594.180.860
there3 4,594.180.850
by2 3,062.790.746
at3 4,594.180.388
doon2 3,062.790.221
is5 7,656.970.219
him2 3,062.790.038
me2 3,062.790.003
as4 6,125.570.000