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 16,574.5925.442
o'3 8,287.2914.656
hir3 8,287.2914.597
ring2 5,524.8614.565
thir3 8,287.2912.032
eftir2 5,524.8611.257
neist2 5,524.868.517
juist3 8,287.298.374
great2 5,524.868.025
lik2 5,524.866.270
last2 5,524.865.880
til2 5,524.864.916
whaur2 5,524.864.757
yin2 5,524.864.624
the31 85,635.364.505
at6 16,574.594.068
its2 5,524.863.030
i5 13,812.152.867
some2 5,524.862.549
aa2 5,524.861.606
in3 8,287.291.520
it2 5,524.861.500
back2 5,524.861.476
derbie2 5,524.86nan
mair2 5,524.861.430
wee2 5,524.861.400
an13 35,911.601.329
that2 5,524.860.834
a8 22,099.450.731
nae2 5,524.860.715
wi4 11,049.720.542
o9 24,861.880.295
on3 8,287.290.233
tae7 19,337.020.082