A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Purves, Jamie


Total words by this author in corpus - 401
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 240
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.671
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, a, wis, his, in, wi, thir, buirds,
Total number of punctuation marks - 51

Punctuation statistics

0 semicolons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 1 colons in total or 2.49 per thousand words 1 apostrophes in total or 2.49 per thousand words 0 quotes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 27 commas in total or 67.33 per thousand words 9 exclamation marks in total or 22.44 per thousand words 0 question marks in total or 0.00 per thousand words 13 full stops in total or 32.42 per thousand words Purves, Jamie; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Lallans 102 - Aince
Lallans Magazine (2023-07) in Central categorised as prose (401 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Purves, Jamie

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