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Foyle, Ghillie

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 553
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 301
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.837
Tagged as LAL (General Central) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, an, his, a, in, o, that, thu, me, wes,

List of texts in corpus

Lallans 58 - The Hildebrand Sang
Lallans Magazine (2001-03-01 ) in Central dialect (LAL), categorised as poetry (553 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
thu9 16,274.86119.839
sinn7 12,658.2399.634
rade3 5,424.9530.725
shiels2 3,616.6426.353
wes7 12,658.2325.137
ither's2 3,616.6424.628
hosts2 3,616.6424.628
thai5 9,041.5924.616
graith3 5,424.9523.543
daith3 5,424.9519.182
spak3 5,424.9517.529
ti7 12,658.2317.295
hildebrand6 10,849.91nan
his13 23,508.1417.187
mint2 3,616.6417.186
truith2 3,616.6416.603
sa2 3,616.6416.426
kemp2 3,616.6416.426
beild2 3,616.6416.257
nou4 7,233.2715.953
gin5 9,041.5915.605
aft2 3,616.6414.873
ding2 3,616.6414.538
steel2 3,616.6413.943
thair5 9,041.5913.911
stour2 3,616.6413.427
thy2 3,616.6412.831
band2 3,616.6412.695
twae2 3,616.6412.023
me8 14,466.5511.844
lane2 3,616.6411.126
thon4 7,233.2710.984
wul2 3,616.6410.667
faither3 5,424.9510.249
bluid2 3,616.6410.118
fecht2 3,616.649.824
fu2 3,616.649.493
sang2 3,616.648.740
wha3 5,424.958.291
telt3 5,424.957.632
frae5 9,041.597.618
ahint2 3,616.647.181
thare2 3,616.647.166
auld4 7,233.277.043
man3 5,424.955.238
than3 5,424.955.096
ain3 5,424.955.029
thir2 3,616.644.935
aestlins2 3,616.64nan
can3 5,424.953.321
made2 3,616.643.308
hildebrand's2 3,616.64nan
hadubrand4 7,233.27nan
men2 3,616.645.769
cam2 3,616.642.977
thaim2 3,616.642.412
it3 5,424.952.377
haes2 3,616.642.301
dietrich2 3,616.64nan
lang2 3,616.642.203
that9 16,274.861.948
bi2 3,616.641.839
us2 3,616.641.587
aw3 5,424.951.572
richt2 3,616.641.563
up4 7,233.271.312
aye2 3,616.641.235
in12 21,699.821.198
fowk2 3,616.641.176
ma4 7,233.271.004
he7 12,658.230.854
heribrand's2 3,616.64nan
at2 3,616.640.820
is2 3,616.640.691
a13 23,508.140.680
ower2 3,616.640.392
the29 52,441.230.361
be2 3,616.640.248
for4 7,233.270.221
o10 18,083.180.184
wi5 9,041.590.166
as4 7,233.270.103
on3 5,424.950.053
an14 25,316.460.002