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 12,571.4361.260
maxwell5 5,714.2960.277
dances5 5,714.2949.608
bricht7 8,000.0042.418
johnny5 5,714.2937.430
heaven4 4,571.4336.691
abuin6 6,857.1431.285
warld7 8,000.0030.371
dark5 5,714.2928.756
under5 5,714.2928.303
luve4 4,571.4326.729
leafs3 3,428.5725.960
haill4 4,571.4325.898
scliffs2 2,285.7124.518
aye-bidan2 2,285.7124.518
gods3 3,428.5723.260
faa4 4,571.4323.252
boonds2 2,285.7122.794
muin3 3,428.5721.740
smoor2 2,285.7121.611
lik6 6,857.1421.200
turkish2 2,285.7120.704
spreid3 3,428.5720.534
pump2 2,285.7118.813
birds3 3,428.5717.850
blue4 4,571.4317.754
hairt3 3,428.5717.598
organ2 2,285.7117.539
saft3 3,428.5716.758
faas2 2,285.7116.303
pain3 3,428.5715.781
rase2 2,285.7115.159
felt4 4,571.4314.998
watter4 4,571.4313.364
lay3 3,428.5713.189
the77 88,000.0012.329
hill3 3,428.5712.256
burnin2 2,285.7112.227
ye14 16,000.0012.021
yir3 3,428.5711.888
banes2 2,285.7111.870
roun2 2,285.7111.703
throu4 4,571.4311.614
did5 5,714.2911.198
plays2 2,285.7111.099
yon4 4,571.4311.091
gowd2 2,285.7111.030
grace2 2,285.7110.896
maun4 4,571.4310.859
flee2 2,285.7110.830
hands2 2,285.7110.830
i14 16,000.0010.187
fire3 3,428.579.989
turnin2 2,285.719.713
sun3 3,428.579.515
move2 2,285.719.479
loch2 2,285.718.559
shair2 2,285.718.559
mind4 4,571.437.919
o31 35,428.577.889
mooth2 2,285.717.884
stane2 2,285.717.797
it3 3,428.577.328
could4 4,571.437.189
till3 3,428.577.085
clere3 3,428.57nan
boy2 2,285.717.291
my4 4,571.436.840
an35 40,000.006.452
place3 3,428.576.172
away2 2,285.716.105
green2 2,285.715.968
run2 2,285.715.678
see5 5,714.295.526
brocht2 2,285.715.259
feet2 2,285.715.049
nor3 3,428.574.952
whaur3 3,428.574.667
still3 3,428.574.547
air2 2,285.714.516
near2 2,285.713.803
thocht3 3,428.573.767
wee5 5,714.293.716
while2 2,285.713.410
a17 19,428.573.387
at2 2,285.713.099
went2 2,285.712.981
their4 4,571.432.905
when3 3,428.572.782
baith2 2,285.712.485
aa4 4,571.432.475
dabaittie2 2,285.71nan
and10 11,428.572.432
for2 2,285.712.241
he4 4,571.432.070
yin2 2,285.712.020
english2 2,285.711.808
this6 6,857.141.711
wi10 11,428.571.611
tak2 2,285.711.581
juist2 2,285.711.509
sae3 3,428.571.452
tae14 16,000.001.328
intae3 3,428.571.166
on8 9,142.861.120
time3 3,428.571.029
ain2 2,285.710.954
were2 2,285.710.760
afore2 2,285.710.739
but5 5,714.290.631
frisco2 2,285.71nan
ken2 2,285.710.588
us2 2,285.710.577
some2 2,285.710.424
gentlie2 2,285.71nan
oor2 2,285.710.380
by2 2,285.710.272
them2 2,285.710.245
his4 4,571.430.206
they4 4,571.430.110
nae2 2,285.710.102
frae2 2,285.710.063
that8 9,142.860.047
up3 3,428.570.038
in13 14,857.140.031
is5 5,714.290.030
fuits2 2,285.71nan
there2 2,285.710.030
oot4 4,571.430.027
back2 2,285.710.023
as5 5,714.290.020