Word tokens

Words characteristic of wpa_life_histories

Word frequency data from WPA Federal Writers' Project life-history interviews, 1936-1940

Ranked by Zipf delta: how much more common a word is here than its average across the 18 other corpora (19th_books, 20th_books, wiki_math, wiki_geography, wiki_biology, wiki_modern_life, wiki_arts, wiki_society, wiki_linguistics, wiki_physical_science, wiki_history, early_modern_science, religious_translated, cooking, legal_scotus, eu_parliament_debates, openstax_science, openstax_society). +1.00 means ten times as common here. The ranks beside it say the same thing in readable terms — they are not used for sorting, because the corpora are different sizes and rank 500 does not mean the same thing in each.
Most skewed toward wpa_life_histories 100 shown
Word Zipf Δ Rank here Mean rank elsewhere Rank ratio Corpora
got +1.69 48 2596 54.1× 11
t +1.59 58 2679 46.2× 15
didn't +1.54 108 3616 33.5× 6
o +1.50 127 3529 27.8× 13
guy +1.46 586 8107 13.8× 2
don't +1.40 82 2276 27.8× 13
dad +1.38 816 9702 11.9× 2
feller +1.34 558 6996 12.5× 3
mill +1.32 312 4999 16.0× 5
kid +1.31 698 7699 11.0× 2
boys +1.31 180 3706 20.6× 9
informant +1.30 695 7604 10.9× 2
farm +1.26 238 3898 16.4× 10
I +1.26 7 254 36.3× 17
lot +1.25 172 3170 18.4× 13
outfit +1.23 622 5971 9.6× 2
oar +1.23 842 7846 9.3× 3
it's +1.22 154 2936 19.1× 10
shipped +1.22 994 8628 8.7× 2
get +1.21 55 1060 19.3× 17
that's +1.21 171 3705 21.7× 5
kids +1.21 582 5479 9.4× 2
you +1.20 19 1023 53.8× 17
went +1.20 77 1616 21.0× 15
roam +1.18 1170 9195 7.9× 2
lots +1.18 362 3563 9.8× 3
cattle +1.17 192 3004 15.6× 11
big +1.16 136 1893 13.9× 14
dollars +1.16 305 3836 12.6× 8
can't +1.16 244 3924 16.1× 6
hen +1.16 547 5222 9.5× 3
maybe +1.15 366 4332 11.8× 5
shop +1.15 355 4168 11.7× 6
bout +1.15 683 6053 8.9× 3
prairie +1.14 1298 9618 7.4× 2
I'm +1.14 186 3283 17.7× 6
town +1.13 138 1993 14.4× 14
they're +1.13 437 5400 12.4× 3
vent +1.13 949 7364 7.8× 3
he's +1.12 280 4229 15.1× 4
boy +1.11 191 2997 15.7× 10
wasn't +1.10 252 3184 12.6× 3
wagons +1.10 905 6770 7.5× 3
my +1.10 24 723 30.1× 12
acre +1.10 1392 8996 6.5× 3
bought +1.09 333 3721 11.2× 11
she +1.09 36 790 21.9× 17
wagon +1.08 363 3132 8.6× 2
worked +1.08 174 2210 12.7× 16
one time +1.07 514 5044 9.8× 5
job +1.07 185 2366 12.8× 10
guess +1.06 335 3191 9.5× 5
old +1.06 49 597 12.2× 17
ma +1.06 519 4728 9.1× 5
hi +1.06 750 6452 8.6× 3
house +1.06 89 1263 14.2× 16
foreman +1.06 1440 8677 6.0× 2
lived +1.06 167 2313 13.8× 15
whiskey +1.05 1507 9017 6.0× 2
girls +1.05 293 3268 11.2× 12
father +1.05 119 1702 14.3× 13
money +1.05 134 1741 13.0× 15
wan +1.05 1266 8099 6.4× 3
him +1.04 42 893 21.3× 17
we'd +1.04 589 4412 7.5× 2
go +1.04 70 936 13.4× 17
they'd +1.04 359 2841 7.9× 2
le +1.04 349 3419 9.8× 9
herd +1.03 340 3257 9.6× 4
store +1.03 287 2863 10.0× 15
sheds +1.03 1292 8126 6.3× 3
told +1.03 132 1552 11.8× 12
nothin +1.03 1019 6618 6.5× 3
ride +1.02 372 3697 9.9× 7
man +1.02 81 1397 17.2× 16
married +1.02 181 2302 12.7× 10
anyway +1.01 606 4328 7.1× 4
goin +1.01 666 4553 6.8× 2
tell +1.00 147 1822 12.4× 13
trip +1.00 434 4421 10.2× 9
cot +1.00 1091 6432 5.9× 2
tit +0.99 1686 8943 5.3× 2
me +0.98 33 640 19.4× 11
folks +0.98 311 2175 7.0× 2
sheriff +0.97 1200 7217 6.0× 2
there's +0.97 346 4956 14.3× 3
cents +0.97 538 4408 8.2× 5
quit +0.97 679 5051 7.4× 4
County +0.97 253 2629 10.4× 7
worker +0.97 563 4644 8.2× 6
know +0.97 80 1179 14.7× 16
quarry +0.96 1585 8141 5.1× 2
cow +0.96 511 3753 7.3× 7
remember +0.96 199 2340 11.8× 10
we +0.95 17 606 35.6× 17
bad +0.95 233 2340 10.0× 14
damn +0.94 767 4613 6.0× 2
mother +0.93 155 1641 10.6× 16
knew +0.93 214 2215 10.3× 11
miles +0.93 230 2454 10.7× 10