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Paisley, Janet


Total words by this author in corpus - 20,619
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 3,584
Ratio of total words to unique words - 5.753
Top ten most common words - the, ', a, an, tae, it, she, he, his, in,
Total number of punctuation marks - 5,529

Punctuation statistics

0 semicolons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 15 colons in total or 0.73 per thousand words 1612 apostrophes in total or 78.18 per thousand words 19 quotes in total or 0.92 per thousand words 1090 commas in total or 52.86 per thousand words 71 exclamation marks in total or 3.44 per thousand words 199 question marks in total or 9.65 per thousand words 2504 full stops in total or 121.44 per thousand words Paisley, Janet; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Lallans 62 - The Numpty
Lallans Magazine (2003-07) in Central categorised as prose (2,021 words)

Not For Glory
Canongate (2001-08-08) in Central categorised as prose (18,598 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Paisley, Janet

Full stops are red; commas are blue;
apostrophes are yellow; quotes are pink;
question marks are green; Exclamation marks are cyan;
semicolons are white; colons are black