A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Burns, John

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 875
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 389
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.249
Tagged as SWE (South West (Galloway)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, a, i, ye, tae, in, licht, and,

List of texts in corpus

Chuckies fir the Cairn
Luath (01-01-2009 ) in Central (Galloway) dialect (SWE), categorised as poetry (875 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
licht11 12,571.4361.295
maxwell5 5,714.2960.293
dances5 5,714.2949.624
bricht7 8,000.0042.440
johnny5 5,714.2937.446
heaven4 4,571.4336.704
abuin6 6,857.1431.304
warld7 8,000.0030.393
dark5 5,714.2928.772
under5 5,714.2928.319
luve4 4,571.4326.742
leafs3 3,428.5725.969
haill4 4,571.4325.911
scliffs2 2,285.7124.525
aye-bidan2 2,285.7124.525
gods3 3,428.5723.270
faa4 4,571.4323.265
boonds2 2,285.7122.800
muin3 3,428.5721.750
smoor2 2,285.7121.617
lik6 6,857.1421.218
turkish2 2,285.7120.711
spreid3 3,428.5720.543
pump2 2,285.7118.819
birds3 3,428.5717.860
blue4 4,571.4317.728
hairt3 3,428.5717.608
organ2 2,285.7117.546
saft3 3,428.5716.767
faas2 2,285.7116.309
pain3 3,428.5715.790
rase2 2,285.7115.165
felt4 4,571.4315.010
watter4 4,571.4313.376
lay3 3,428.5713.198
the77 88,000.0012.315
hill3 3,428.5712.265
burnin2 2,285.7112.233
ye14 16,000.0011.972
yir3 3,428.5711.897
banes2 2,285.7111.876
roun2 2,285.7111.709
throu4 4,571.4311.626
did5 5,714.2911.191
plays2 2,285.7111.106
yon4 4,571.4311.103
gowd2 2,285.7111.037
grace2 2,285.7110.902
maun4 4,571.4310.870
flee2 2,285.7110.836
hands2 2,285.7110.836
i14 16,000.0010.210
fire3 3,428.579.998
turnin2 2,285.719.719
sun3 3,428.579.524
move2 2,285.719.485
loch2 2,285.718.565
shair2 2,285.718.565
o31 35,428.577.932
mind4 4,571.437.922
mooth2 2,285.717.890
stane2 2,285.717.774
it3 3,428.577.339
could4 4,571.437.169
till3 3,428.577.093
clere3 3,428.57nan
boy2 2,285.717.297
my4 4,571.436.850
an35 40,000.006.473
place3 3,428.576.180
away2 2,285.716.111
green2 2,285.715.957
run2 2,285.715.683
see5 5,714.295.529
brocht2 2,285.715.265
feet2 2,285.715.055
nor3 3,428.574.959
whaur3 3,428.574.674
still3 3,428.574.555
air2 2,285.714.511
near2 2,285.713.808
thocht3 3,428.573.774
wee5 5,714.293.712
while2 2,285.713.415
a17 19,428.573.386
at2 2,285.713.101
went2 2,285.712.968
their4 4,571.432.905
when3 3,428.572.781
baith2 2,285.712.485
aa4 4,571.432.483
dabaittie2 2,285.71nan
and10 11,428.572.445
for2 2,285.712.232
he4 4,571.432.075
yin2 2,285.712.021
english2 2,285.711.813
this6 6,857.141.715
wi10 11,428.571.614
tak2 2,285.711.585
juist2 2,285.711.513
sae3 3,428.571.457
tae14 16,000.001.327
intae3 3,428.571.163
on8 9,142.861.128
time3 3,428.571.034
ain2 2,285.710.958
were2 2,285.710.762
afore2 2,285.710.740
but5 5,714.290.634
frisco2 2,285.71nan
ken2 2,285.710.591
us2 2,285.710.577
some2 2,285.710.425
gentlie2 2,285.71nan
oor2 2,285.710.382
by2 2,285.710.272
them2 2,285.710.242
his4 4,571.430.208
they4 4,571.430.106
nae2 2,285.710.102
frae2 2,285.710.064
that8 9,142.860.048
up3 3,428.570.038
there2 2,285.710.030
in13 14,857.140.030
fuits2 2,285.71nan
is5 5,714.290.030
oot4 4,571.430.027
back2 2,285.710.022
as5 5,714.290.021