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Smith, Alex


Total words by this author in corpus - 43,759
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 3,360
Ratio of total words to unique words - 13.024
Top ten most common words - the, a, an, tae, wis, o, temp, day, in, jonsar,
Total number of punctuation marks - 7,441

Punctuation statistics

0 semicolons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 0 colons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 748 apostrophes in total or 17.09 per thousand words 864 quotes in total or 19.74 per thousand words 2760 commas in total or 63.07 per thousand words 4 exclamation marks in total or 0.09 per thousand words 167 question marks in total or 3.82 per thousand words 2894 full stops in total or 66.13 per thousand words Smith, Alex; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

A Sair Fecht
self-published (01-01-2003) in Doric categorised as prose (22,134 words)

A Fer Chauve
self-published (01-01-2005) in Doric categorised as prose (21,625 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Smith, Alex

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