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Shearer, Gillian


Total words by this author in corpus - 2,264
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 802
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.823
Top ten most common words - the, ah, a, ma, and, wis, tae, in, his, o,
Total number of punctuation marks - 337

Punctuation statistics

10 semicolons in total or 4.42 per thousand words 5 colons in total or 2.21 per thousand words 68 apostrophes in total or 30.04 per thousand words 2 quotes in total or 0.88 per thousand words 57 commas in total or 25.18 per thousand words 6 exclamation marks in total or 2.65 per thousand words 8 question marks in total or 3.53 per thousand words 171 full stops in total or 75.53 per thousand words Shearer, Gillian; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Skitin Oan Thin Ice
northwordsnow.co.uk (2019-04-01) in Doric (Alford) categorised as prose (342 words)

Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica
Doric Books (2023-02-20) in Doric categorised as prose (1,922 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Shearer, Gillian

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