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 12,571.4361.179
maxwell5 5,714.2960.272
dances5 5,714.2949.603
bricht7 8,000.0042.502
johnny5 5,714.2937.616
heaven4 4,571.4336.255
abuin6 6,857.1431.106
warld7 8,000.0030.511
under5 5,714.2928.987
dark5 5,714.2928.447
luve4 4,571.4326.852
leafs3 3,428.5725.624
haill4 4,571.4325.456
scliffs2 2,285.7124.516
aye-bidan2 2,285.7124.516
gods3 3,428.5723.257
faa4 4,571.4323.090
boonds2 2,285.7122.792
muin3 3,428.5721.737
smoor2 2,285.7121.609
lik6 6,857.1421.195
turkish2 2,285.7120.702
spreid3 3,428.5720.136
pump2 2,285.7118.811
birds3 3,428.5717.848
blue4 4,571.4317.789
hairt3 3,428.5717.678
organ2 2,285.7117.537
saft3 3,428.5716.827
faas2 2,285.7116.301
pain3 3,428.5716.149
rase2 2,285.7115.157
felt4 4,571.4315.021
watter4 4,571.4313.319
lay3 3,428.5713.148
burnin2 2,285.7112.320
hill3 3,428.5712.221
the77 88,000.0012.217
ye14 16,000.0012.139
yir3 3,428.5711.885
banes2 2,285.7111.868
roun2 2,285.7111.701
throu4 4,571.4311.563
did5 5,714.2911.257
gowd2 2,285.7111.097
plays2 2,285.7111.097
yon4 4,571.4311.043
flee2 2,285.7110.894
grace2 2,285.7110.894
maun4 4,571.4310.869
hands2 2,285.7110.828
i14 16,000.0010.420
turnin2 2,285.719.859
fire3 3,428.579.843
sun3 3,428.579.531
move2 2,285.719.522
shair2 2,285.718.557
loch2 2,285.718.487
mooth2 2,285.718.032
mind4 4,571.437.943
o31 35,428.577.828
stane2 2,285.717.738
boy2 2,285.717.364
it3 3,428.577.223
till3 3,428.577.014
clere3 3,428.57nan
could4 4,571.437.170
my4 4,571.436.894
away2 2,285.716.284
an35 40,000.006.197
place3 3,428.576.105
green2 2,285.715.932
run2 2,285.715.676
see5 5,714.295.539
brocht2 2,285.715.203
feet2 2,285.715.010
nor3 3,428.574.901
whaur3 3,428.574.761
air2 2,285.714.536
still3 3,428.574.533
thocht3 3,428.573.814
near2 2,285.713.777
wee5 5,714.293.748
while2 2,285.713.344
a17 19,428.573.341
at2 2,285.713.143
went2 2,285.712.986
when3 3,428.572.947
their4 4,571.432.874
dabaittie2 2,285.71nan
and10 11,428.572.496
baith2 2,285.712.421
aa4 4,571.432.340
for2 2,285.712.294
he4 4,571.432.134
yin2 2,285.712.011
english2 2,285.711.814
gentlie2 2,285.71nan
this6 6,857.141.718
wi10 11,428.571.562
tak2 2,285.711.549
juist2 2,285.711.464
sae3 3,428.571.438
tae14 16,000.001.361
intae3 3,428.571.209
on8 9,142.861.093
time3 3,428.571.054
ain2 2,285.710.953
were2 2,285.710.757
but5 5,714.290.660
frisco2 2,285.71nan
afore2 2,285.710.703
ken2 2,285.710.572
us2 2,285.710.570
some2 2,285.710.423
oor2 2,285.710.373
by2 2,285.710.264
them2 2,285.710.239
his4 4,571.430.223
nae2 2,285.710.106
they4 4,571.430.104
frae2 2,285.710.056
that8 9,142.860.047
up3 3,428.570.041
in13 14,857.140.031
is5 5,714.290.030
fuits2 2,285.71nan
oot4 4,571.430.028
there2 2,285.710.028
as5 5,714.290.026
back2 2,285.710.022