A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The Westender


Total words by this author in corpus - 2,027
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 656
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.09
Top ten most common words - the, a, tae, and, o', was, in, that, they, for,
Total number of punctuation marks - 353

Punctuation statistics

1 semicolons in total or 0.49 per thousand words 0 colons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 159 apostrophes in total or 78.44 per thousand words 9 quotes in total or 4.44 per thousand words 62 commas in total or 30.59 per thousand words 2 exclamation marks in total or 0.99 per thousand words 12 question marks in total or 5.92 per thousand words 108 full stops in total or 53.28 per thousand words The Westender; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Pipin for the Young Yins
The Hawick Paper (11-01-2008) in Southern categorised as newspaper (368 words)

Loupin Salmon
The Hawick Paper (13-12-2007) in Southern categorised as newspaper (571 words)

Ins and oots
The Hawick Paper (06-12-2007) in Southern categorised as newspaper (574 words)

Mairchers did oor toon prood
The Hawick Paper (15-11-2007) in Southern categorised as newspaper (514 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

The Westender

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