A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Ross, Derek


Total words by this author in corpus - 1,187
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 591
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.008
Top ten most common words - the, o, a, in, tae, an, is, it, we, its,
Total number of punctuation marks - 246

Punctuation statistics

0 semicolons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 1 colons in total or 0.84 per thousand words 35 apostrophes in total or 29.49 per thousand words 1 quotes in total or 0.84 per thousand words 129 commas in total or 108.68 per thousand words 5 exclamation marks in total or 4.21 per thousand words 2 question marks in total or 1.68 per thousand words 73 full stops in total or 61.50 per thousand words Ross, Derek; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

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Chuckies fir the Cairn
Luath (13-01-2009) in Central (Dumfries) categorised as poetry (1,187 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Ross, Derek

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