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Gillespie, Alan


Total words by this author in corpus - 853
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 400
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.133
Top ten most common words - the, and, tae, in, wis, a, i, rovers, it, my,
Total number of punctuation marks - 163

Punctuation statistics

1 semicolons in total or 1.17 per thousand words 0 colons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 27 apostrophes in total or 31.65 per thousand words 0 quotes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 60 commas in total or 70.34 per thousand words 2 exclamation marks in total or 2.34 per thousand words 2 question marks in total or 2.34 per thousand words 71 full stops in total or 83.24 per thousand words Gillespie, Alan; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Mon the Rovers
Scottish Book Trust (2021) in Central categorised as prose (853 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Gillespie, Alan

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