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Hume, David


Total words by this author in corpus - 280
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 165
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.697
Top ten most common words - the, a, they, in, frae, €™d, doon, hae, he, tae,
Total number of punctuation marks - 20

Punctuation statistics

5 semicolons in total or 17.86 per thousand words 1 colons in total or 3.57 per thousand words 0 apostrophes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 0 quotes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 5 commas in total or 17.86 per thousand words 0 exclamation marks in total or 0.00 per thousand words 0 question marks in total or 0.00 per thousand words 9 full stops in total or 32.14 per thousand words Hume, David; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

The Aldfreck Coalmining Disaster
Ullans Magazine (2012) in Ulster (Ballycarry) categorised as poetry (166 words)

Aince the corncrake caa’ed
Ullans Magazine (2012) in Ulster (Ballycarry) categorised as poetry (114 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Hume, David

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