A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Paterson, Stuart A.


Total words by this author in corpus - 16,226
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 4,020
Ratio of total words to unique words - 4.036
Top ten most common words - the, an, tae, o, a, in, no, wi, ye, yer,
Total number of punctuation marks - 2,698

Punctuation statistics

2 semicolons in total or 0.12 per thousand words 0 colons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 649 apostrophes in total or 40.00 per thousand words 13 quotes in total or 0.80 per thousand words 1315 commas in total or 81.04 per thousand words 84 exclamation marks in total or 5.18 per thousand words 56 question marks in total or 3.45 per thousand words 544 full stops in total or 33.53 per thousand words Paterson, Stuart A.; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Daft Days
Lidl (01-12-2020) in Central categorised as poetry (256 words)

Ootby
twitter (2022-02-19) in Central categorised as poetry (77 words)

Here’s the Weather
Scottish Poetry Library (01-01-2017) in Central categorised as poetry (322 words)

Breenge
Scottish Poetry Library (01-01-2016) in Central categorised as poetry (94 words)

Wheen: New and Collected Poems
Ulster-Scots Community Network (2023-02-01) in Central categorised as poetry (15,477 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Paterson, Stuart A.

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