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McFarlane, Ishbel


Total words by this author in corpus - 854
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 414
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.063
Top ten most common words - a, the, o, an, in, fir, €™s, tae, €“, that,
Total number of punctuation marks - 98

Punctuation statistics

0 semicolons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 2 colons in total or 2.34 per thousand words 0 apostrophes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 0 quotes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 53 commas in total or 62.06 per thousand words 3 exclamation marks in total or 3.51 per thousand words 4 question marks in total or 4.68 per thousand words 36 full stops in total or 42.15 per thousand words McFarlane, Ishbel; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Maun we mak new wirds fir a chyngin warld?
The National (05-03-2020) in Central categorised as newspaper (330 words)

Oor hail culture is fatphobic ... an thon’s the real shame
The National (30-01-2020) in Central categorised as newspaper (96 words)

Does Scotland compare weil wi ither places fir wee bairnies?
The National (21-11-2019) in Central categorised as newspaper (179 words)

Time tae mairch oot o oor climate comfort zones
The National (17-10-2019) in Central categorised as newspaper (249 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

McFarlane, Ishbel

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