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Hershaw, William


Total words by this author in corpus - 10,217
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 2,748
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.718
Top ten most common words - the, and, o, tae, a, in, he, for, was, wi,
Total number of punctuation marks - 1,529

Punctuation statistics

13 semicolons in total or 1.27 per thousand words 97 colons in total or 9.49 per thousand words 150 apostrophes in total or 14.68 per thousand words 65 quotes in total or 6.36 per thousand words 534 commas in total or 52.27 per thousand words 13 exclamation marks in total or 1.27 per thousand words 33 question marks in total or 3.23 per thousand words 609 full stops in total or 59.61 per thousand words Hershaw, William; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

The Retour O The Grey Airmy
Bella Caledonia (2016-Mar-11) in Central (Fife) categorised as blog (1,141 words)

Seivin Verses for GMB
Scottish Poetry Library (01-01-2015) in Orkney categorised as poetry (145 words)

Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife
Lallans Magazine (2001-09) in Central categorised as prose (647 words)

Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun
Lallans Magazine (2005-02-01) in Central categorised as poetry (924 words)

Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest
Eemis Stane (2022-05-06) in Central categorised as prose (1,451 words)

Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men
Lallans Magazine (2000) in Central categorised as prose (772 words)

Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae
Lallans Magazine (2001-09-01) in Central categorised as prose (2,924 words)

Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01) in Central categorised as poetry (766 words)

Lallans 56 - In The Classroom
Lallans Magazine (2000-03-01) in Central categorised as prose (1,447 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Hershaw, William

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