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 12,571.4360.937
maxwell5 5,714.2960.416
dances5 5,714.2949.747
bricht7 8,000.0042.339
johnny5 5,714.2937.759
heaven4 4,571.4336.370
abuin6 6,857.1431.274
warld7 8,000.0030.557
under5 5,714.2929.049
dark5 5,714.2928.439
luve4 4,571.4326.839
leafs3 3,428.5725.710
haill4 4,571.4325.569
scliffs2 2,285.7124.574
aye-bidan2 2,285.7124.574
gods3 3,428.5723.343
faa4 4,571.4323.048
boonds2 2,285.7122.850
muin3 3,428.5721.823
smoor2 2,285.7121.666
lik6 6,857.1421.171
turkish2 2,285.7120.760
spreid3 3,428.5720.221
pump2 2,285.7118.868
birds3 3,428.5717.932
blue4 4,571.4317.822
organ2 2,285.7117.247
hairt3 3,428.5717.057
saft3 3,428.5716.699
faas2 2,285.7116.358
pain3 3,428.5716.169
rase2 2,285.7115.214
felt4 4,571.4315.076
watter4 4,571.4313.363
lay3 3,428.5713.231
the77 88,000.0012.690
burnin2 2,285.7112.281
hill3 3,428.5712.056
ye14 16,000.0012.029
yir3 3,428.5711.849
banes2 2,285.7111.840
roun2 2,285.7111.676
throu4 4,571.4311.494
did5 5,714.2911.286
gowd2 2,285.7111.154
yon4 4,571.4311.132
plays2 2,285.7111.085
grace2 2,285.7110.950
maun4 4,571.4310.915
flee2 2,285.7110.884
hands2 2,285.7110.884
i14 16,000.0010.546
fire3 3,428.579.883
turnin2 2,285.719.865
move2 2,285.719.578
sun3 3,428.579.536
loch2 2,285.718.473
shair2 2,285.718.440
mind4 4,571.437.969
mooth2 2,285.717.966
o31 35,428.577.767
stane2 2,285.717.654
boy2 2,285.717.418
clere3 3,428.57nan
could4 4,571.437.250
it3 3,428.577.222
till3 3,428.576.957
my4 4,571.436.937
away2 2,285.716.337
an35 40,000.006.070
place3 3,428.576.007
green2 2,285.715.985
run2 2,285.715.697
see5 5,714.295.544
brocht2 2,285.715.163
feet2 2,285.714.974
nor3 3,428.574.863
whaur3 3,428.574.733
air2 2,285.714.522
still3 3,428.574.503
thocht3 3,428.573.814
wee5 5,714.293.709
near2 2,285.713.703
a17 19,428.573.429
while2 2,285.713.308
at2 2,285.713.115
when3 3,428.572.984
went2 2,285.712.941
their4 4,571.432.896
dabaittie2 2,285.71nan
and10 11,428.572.562
baith2 2,285.712.426
aa4 4,571.432.276
for2 2,285.712.236
he4 4,571.432.131
english2 2,285.711.846
yin2 2,285.711.839
gentlie2 2,285.71nan
this6 6,857.141.695
wi10 11,428.571.581
tak2 2,285.711.562
juist2 2,285.711.483
sae3 3,428.571.437
tae14 16,000.001.372
intae3 3,428.571.224
on8 9,142.861.077
time3 3,428.571.060
ain2 2,285.710.955
were2 2,285.710.748
but5 5,714.290.659
frisco2 2,285.71nan
afore2 2,285.710.703
ken2 2,285.710.579
us2 2,285.710.535
some2 2,285.710.432
oor2 2,285.710.343
by2 2,285.710.254
them2 2,285.710.225
his4 4,571.430.222
nae2 2,285.710.105
they4 4,571.430.100
frae2 2,285.710.053
that8 9,142.860.050
up3 3,428.570.042
in13 14,857.140.032
is5 5,714.290.030
fuits2 2,285.71nan
oot4 4,571.430.029
there2 2,285.710.028
back2 2,285.710.027
as5 5,714.290.025