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McGregor, Iain


Total words by this author in corpus - 20,459
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 3,508
Ratio of total words to unique words - 5.832
Top ten most common words - a, the, an, tae, wis, it, in, o, ma, wi,
Total number of punctuation marks - 3,722

Punctuation statistics

3 semicolons in total or 0.15 per thousand words 1 colons in total or 0.05 per thousand words 701 apostrophes in total or 34.26 per thousand words 312 quotes in total or 15.25 per thousand words 1061 commas in total or 51.86 per thousand words 328 exclamation marks in total or 16.03 per thousand words 204 question marks in total or 9.97 per thousand words 1057 full stops in total or 51.66 per thousand words McGregor, Iain; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen
Lallans Magazine (2010-07) in Doric categorised as prose (3,506 words)

Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit
Lallans Magazine (2010-07) in Doric categorised as prose (3,722 words)

Lallans 77 - Farquhar
Lallans Magazine (2010-12) in Doric categorised as prose (2,156 words)

Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds
Lallans Magazine (2014-12) in Central categorised as prose (2,585 words)

Lallans 90 - Sally
Lallans Magazine (2017-07) in Central categorised as prose (2,526 words)

Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern
Lallans Magazine (2015-12) in Central categorised as prose (2,797 words)

Lallans 79 - The Ratton
Lallans Magazine (2011-09-01) in Central categorised as prose (2,295 words)

Lallans 78 - Scots Teegars
Lallans Magazine (2011-07-01) in Doric categorised as prose (872 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

McGregor, Iain

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