A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Johnston, Barbara


Total words by this author in corpus - 4,874
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 1,682
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.898
Top ten most common words - the, a, an, tae, i, me, o, fur, in, hid,
Total number of punctuation marks - 562

Punctuation statistics

3 semicolons in total or 0.62 per thousand words 4 colons in total or 0.82 per thousand words 112 apostrophes in total or 22.98 per thousand words 0 quotes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 238 commas in total or 48.83 per thousand words 4 exclamation marks in total or 0.82 per thousand words 22 question marks in total or 4.51 per thousand words 175 full stops in total or 35.90 per thousand words Johnston, Barbara; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End
Abersee Press (2022-11-02) in Orkney categorised as poetry (354 words)

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums
Orkney Voices (2021-11-17) in Orkney categorised as poetry (4,520 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Johnston, Barbara

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