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Smith, Derek


Total words by this author in corpus - 186
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 134
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.388
Top ten most common words - the, a, o', in, and, to, sic, i, twa, his,
Total number of punctuation marks - 36

Punctuation statistics

2 semicolons in total or 10.75 per thousand words 0 colons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 10 apostrophes in total or 53.76 per thousand words 0 quotes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 16 commas in total or 86.02 per thousand words 0 exclamation marks in total or 0.00 per thousand words 0 question marks in total or 0.00 per thousand words 8 full stops in total or 43.01 per thousand words Smith, Derek; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith
northwordsnow.co.uk (2022-06-01) in Doric categorised as poetry (186 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Smith, Derek

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