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The Flying Pigs


Total words by this author in corpus - 1,837
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 706
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.602
Top ten most common words - the, a, €™, i, tae, in, o, and, €™s, it,
Total number of punctuation marks - 188

Punctuation statistics

1 semicolons in total or 0.54 per thousand words 1 colons in total or 0.54 per thousand words 0 apostrophes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 0 quotes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 97 commas in total or 52.80 per thousand words 6 exclamation marks in total or 3.27 per thousand words 9 question marks in total or 4.90 per thousand words 74 full stops in total or 40.28 per thousand words The Flying Pigs; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition
Press and Journal (2018-09-18) in Doric categorised as newspaper (422 words)

Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing
Press and Journal (2022-05-14) in Doric categorised as newspaper (609 words)

There’s nae reassurance over national insurance
Press and Journal (2022-04-09) in Doric categorised as newspaper (362 words)

The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep
Press and Journal (2018-11-12) in Doric categorised as newspaper (444 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

The Flying Pigs

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