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Curran, Doug


Total words by this author in corpus - 2,127
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 909
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.34
Top ten most common words - the, an, tae, a, o, wi, in, by, they, her,
Total number of punctuation marks - 381

Punctuation statistics

5 semicolons in total or 2.35 per thousand words 3 colons in total or 1.41 per thousand words 59 apostrophes in total or 27.74 per thousand words 3 quotes in total or 1.41 per thousand words 206 commas in total or 96.85 per thousand words 12 exclamation marks in total or 5.64 per thousand words 3 question marks in total or 1.41 per thousand words 88 full stops in total or 41.37 per thousand words Curran, Doug; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Chuckies fir the Cairn
Luath (2009) in Central (Galloway) categorised as poetry (2,127 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Curran, Doug

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