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 16,574.5925.765
o'3 8,287.2914.573
hir3 8,287.2914.533
ring2 5,524.8614.508
thir3 8,287.2911.975
eftir2 5,524.8611.201
neist2 5,524.868.462
juist3 8,287.298.333
great2 5,524.868.020
lik2 5,524.866.277
last2 5,524.865.875
til2 5,524.864.971
yin2 5,524.864.841
whaur2 5,524.864.778
the31 85,635.364.324
at6 16,574.594.039
its2 5,524.863.027
i5 13,812.152.826
some2 5,524.862.533
aa2 5,524.861.642
in3 8,287.291.515
back2 5,524.861.449
mair2 5,524.861.440
wee2 5,524.861.415
derbie2 5,524.86nan
it2 5,524.861.501
an13 35,911.601.367
that2 5,524.860.828
nae2 5,524.860.712
a8 22,099.450.704
wi4 11,049.720.535
o9 24,861.880.302
on3 8,287.290.238
tae7 19,337.020.081