A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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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 16,574.5926.192
o'3 8,287.2914.727
hir3 8,287.2914.545
ring2 5,524.8614.313
thir3 8,287.2911.975
eftir2 5,524.8611.209
neist2 5,524.868.571
juist3 8,287.298.437
great2 5,524.868.131
lik2 5,524.866.285
last2 5,524.865.876
til2 5,524.864.989
yin2 5,524.864.853
whaur2 5,524.864.714
the31 85,635.364.362
at6 16,574.594.081
its2 5,524.863.075
i5 13,812.152.758
some2 5,524.862.535
aa2 5,524.861.722
it2 5,524.861.536
in3 8,287.291.509
mair2 5,524.861.465
derbie2 5,524.86nan
an13 35,911.601.449
back2 5,524.861.446
wee2 5,524.861.401
that2 5,524.860.830
nae2 5,524.860.719
a8 22,099.450.718
wi4 11,049.720.554
o9 24,861.880.315
on3 8,287.290.248
tae7 19,337.020.075