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Drosten, John

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 362
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 251
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.442
Tagged as SWE (South West (Galloway)) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, a, tae, at, thon, i, wi, thir,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten
Lallans Magazine (2005-09-01 ) in Central dialect (SWE), categorised as poetry (362 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
thon6 16,574.5926.204
o'3 8,287.2914.717
hir3 8,287.2914.536
ring2 5,524.8614.307
thir3 8,287.2911.966
eftir2 5,524.8611.203
neist2 5,524.868.565
juist3 8,287.298.428
great2 5,524.868.124
lik2 5,524.866.279
last2 5,524.865.883
til2 5,524.864.983
yin2 5,524.864.853
whaur2 5,524.864.709
the31 85,635.364.367
at6 16,574.594.084
its2 5,524.863.070
i5 13,812.152.751
some2 5,524.862.534
aa2 5,524.861.718
it2 5,524.861.533
in3 8,287.291.513
mair2 5,524.861.461
derbie2 5,524.86nan
back2 5,524.861.451
an13 35,911.601.442
wee2 5,524.861.403
that2 5,524.860.828
nae2 5,524.860.719
a8 22,099.450.719
wi4 11,049.720.553
o9 24,861.880.310
on3 8,287.290.246
tae7 19,337.020.075