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Purves, David


Total words by this author in corpus - 10,375
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 2,719
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.816
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, a, in, ah, ti, ma, is, on,
Total number of punctuation marks - 1,347

Punctuation statistics

23 semicolons in total or 2.22 per thousand words 79 colons in total or 7.61 per thousand words 71 apostrophes in total or 6.84 per thousand words 6 quotes in total or 0.58 per thousand words 519 commas in total or 50.02 per thousand words 33 exclamation marks in total or 3.18 per thousand words 38 question marks in total or 3.66 per thousand words 571 full stops in total or 55.04 per thousand words Purves, David; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names
Lallans Magazine (2009-12-01) in Southern categorised as prose (707 words)

Lallans 75 - On War
Lallans Magazine (2009-12-01) in Southern categorised as prose (246 words)

Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I
Lallans Magazine (2004-09) in Southern (Selkirk) categorised as poetry (604 words)

Jade Lute
SCOTS Corpus (2003) in Southern (Selkirk) categorised as poetry (5,400 words)

Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762)
Lallans Magazine (2005-09-01) in Southern (Selkirk) categorised as poetry (970 words)

Lallans 67 - Editorial
Lallans Magazine (2005-09-01) in Southern (Selkirk) categorised as newspaper (1,561 words)

Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01) in Southern (Selkirk) categorised as poetry (731 words)

Lallans 73 - A Whein Auld Chinese Saws
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01) in Southern (Selkirk) categorised as poetry (156 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Purves, David

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