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Wilson, Rab


Total words by this author in corpus - 28,876
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 7,159
Ratio of total words to unique words - 4.034
Top ten most common words - the, an, o, a, tae, in, his, that, ye, ah,
Total number of punctuation marks - 6,317

Punctuation statistics

188 semicolons in total or 6.51 per thousand words 52 colons in total or 1.80 per thousand words 1621 apostrophes in total or 56.14 per thousand words 43 quotes in total or 1.49 per thousand words 2976 commas in total or 103.06 per thousand words 356 exclamation marks in total or 12.33 per thousand words 203 question marks in total or 7.03 per thousand words 858 full stops in total or 29.71 per thousand words Wilson, Rab; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Lallans 70 - Carnegie
Lallans Magazine (2009-07) in Central categorised as poetry (115 words)

Lallans 62 - Cormilligan
Lallans Magazine (2003-07) in Central categorised as poetry (1,501 words)

Lallans 76 - The Sycamore at Calton
Lallans Magazine (2010-07) in Central categorised as poetry (354 words)

Lallans 76 - Napoleon’s Gairden
Lallans Magazine (2010-07) in Central categorised as poetry (272 words)

A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken
Dictionaries of the Scots Language (2021-11-30) in Central categorised as poetry (540 words)

A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid
The National (2017-04-27) in Central categorised as newspaper (1,014 words)

Lallans 82 - The Gowden Boat
Lallans Magazine (2013-07) in Central categorised as poetry (269 words)

Lallans 85 - Roads
Lallans Magazine (2014-12) in Central categorised as poetry (208 words)

Chuckies fir the Cairn
Luath (13-01-2009) in Central (Dumfries) categorised as poetry (775 words)

Chuckies fir the Cairn
Luath (13-01-2009) in Southern (Dumfries) categorised as poetry (1,901 words)

Accent O the Mind
Luath (2006-04-01) in Central (New Cumnock) categorised as poetry (20,320 words)

Lallans 73 - No Faur Frae Babel
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01) in Central categorised as poetry (135 words)

Lallans 73 - reviews
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01) in Central categorised as prose (1,472 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Wilson, Rab

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