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Robertson, James


Total words by this author in corpus - 55,972
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 4,812
Ratio of total words to unique words - 11.632
Top ten most common words - the, and, ', a, tae, he, said, it, wis, o,
Total number of punctuation marks - 15,145

Punctuation statistics

85 semicolons in total or 1.52 per thousand words 137 colons in total or 2.45 per thousand words 5104 apostrophes in total or 91.19 per thousand words 481 quotes in total or 8.59 per thousand words 4468 commas in total or 79.83 per thousand words 442 exclamation marks in total or 7.90 per thousand words 593 question marks in total or 10.59 per thousand words 3641 full stops in total or 65.05 per thousand words Robertson, James; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

The Deil
Scottish Book Trust (2018) in Central categorised as prose (2,904 words)

Melt (Yin)
Kettillonia (2001) in Central categorised as poetry (119 words)

Dr Wha
Scottish Poetry Library (01-01-2018) in Central categorised as poetry (123 words)

Black Cuddy
Scottish Book Trust (2019) in Central categorised as prose (1,035 words)

The Mannie
Scottish Book Trust (2018) in Central categorised as prose (1,629 words)

Naebody'd Seen Him
Scottish Book Trust (2018) in Central categorised as prose (2,309 words)

Precious and the Puggies
Itchy Coo (05-03-2011) in Central categorised as weans (7,914 words)

Eemis Stane 2 - The Ploom
Eemis Stane (2023-01-26) in Central categorised as poetry (120 words)

The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk
Itchy Coo (2010-06-10) in Central categorised as weans (28,955 words)

The Sleekit Mr Tod
Itchy Coo (2008-03-25) in Central categorised as weans (10,235 words)

The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Lassie in the Snaw
Itchy Coo (2020-09-24) in Central categorised as weans (629 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Robertson, James

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