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Fitt, Matthew


Total words by this author in corpus - 70,187
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 7,514
Ratio of total words to unique words - 9.341
Top ten most common words - the, and, a, ', o, tae, it, in, he, wis,
Total number of punctuation marks - 16,496

Punctuation statistics

25 semicolons in total or 0.36 per thousand words 35 colons in total or 0.50 per thousand words 5137 apostrophes in total or 73.19 per thousand words 848 quotes in total or 12.08 per thousand words 3876 commas in total or 55.22 per thousand words 1521 exclamation marks in total or 21.67 per thousand words 540 question marks in total or 7.69 per thousand words 4156 full stops in total or 59.21 per thousand words Fitt, Matthew; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Jordan's New Jaiket
Education Scotland (2014) in Central categorised as weans (506 words)

Whuppity Stoorie
Scots Hoose (01-01-2017) in Central categorised as weans (1,232 words)

Fae Mooth tae Page
Bella Caledonia (2016-Jan-07) in Central categorised as blog (857 words)

Matthew Fitt: a word aboot 'bad' language
Scottish Book Trust (2021-09-13) in Central categorised as blog (689 words)

Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes
Itchy Coo (28-07-2018) in Central categorised as weans (4,404 words)

Chairlie and the Chocolate Works
Itchy Coo (2016-09-28) in Central categorised as prose (32,838 words)

Geordie's Mingin Medicine
Itchy Coo (2007-08-30) in Central categorised as weans (12,687 words)

Dinnae Mak Me Laugh
Scots Hoose (2021) in Central categorised as weans (545 words)

Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems
Luath (2003-01-01) in Central categorised as poetry (5,757 words)

Hercules: Bampots and Heroes
Itchy Coo (2005-10-24) in Central (Dundee) categorised as weans (9,463 words)

The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love
Itchy Coo (2020-09-24) in Central categorised as weans (1,209 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Fitt, Matthew

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