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Strachan, Shane


Total words by this author in corpus - 9,610
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 2,300
Ratio of total words to unique words - 4.178
Top ten most common words - the, i, and, a, tae, o, €™s, ma, in, it,
Total number of punctuation marks - 1,384

Punctuation statistics

0 semicolons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 11 colons in total or 1.14 per thousand words 41 apostrophes in total or 4.27 per thousand words 57 quotes in total or 5.93 per thousand words 377 commas in total or 39.23 per thousand words 50 exclamation marks in total or 5.20 per thousand words 49 question marks in total or 5.10 per thousand words 670 full stops in total or 69.72 per thousand words Strachan, Shane; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Beyond the Sea
Scottish Book Trust (2023-03-29) in Doric categorised as prose (1,120 words)

Hoast
Scots Hoose (2020 May) in Doric categorised as prose (3,763 words)

Standing Stone
northwordsnow.co.uk (2016-07-23) in Doric categorised as prose (3,145 words)

Tales Fae The Doric Side - Doric Dwams
Doric Books (2023-02-20) in Doric categorised as poetry (118 words)

Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Tod’s Thoucht
Doric Books (2023-02-20) in Doric categorised as poetry (66 words)

Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Hert o the Moontin
Doric Books (2023-02-20) in Doric categorised as poetry (86 words)

Dinnae Mak Me Laugh
Scots Hoose (2021) in Central categorised as weans (158 words)

Northwords Now 43 - Shane Strachan
northwordsnow.co.uk (2022-06-01) in Doric categorised as poetry (200 words)

The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - An Eggs-traordinar Egg
Itchy Coo (2020-09-24) in Doric (Aberdeen) categorised as weans (954 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Strachan, Shane

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