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De Luca, Christine


Total words by this author in corpus - 14,520
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 3,701
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.923
Top ten most common words - da, a, an, o, ta, wis, i, hit, at, is,
Total number of punctuation marks - 2,542

Punctuation statistics

112 semicolons in total or 7.71 per thousand words 95 colons in total or 6.54 per thousand words 436 apostrophes in total or 30.03 per thousand words 4 quotes in total or 0.28 per thousand words 948 commas in total or 65.29 per thousand words 52 exclamation marks in total or 3.58 per thousand words 51 question marks in total or 3.51 per thousand words 820 full stops in total or 56.47 per thousand words De Luca, Christine; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic
Shetland For Wirds (2008) in Shetland categorised as weans (959 words)

Soondscapes
Shetland For Wirds (2015) in Shetland categorised as poetry (99 words)

Paes Eggs
Shetland For Wirds (2002) in Shetland categorised as poetry (117 words)

St Ninian's Isle
Shetland For Wirds (2002) in Shetland categorised as poetry (262 words)

Gaet-markers
Shetland For Wirds (2010) in Shetland categorised as poetry (145 words)

Thule Revisited
Shetland For Wirds (2007) in Shetland categorised as poetry (235 words)

Love in a Caald Climate
Shetland For Wirds (01-04-2010) in Shetland categorised as poetry (72 words)

Smootie gengs ta Lerrick
SCOTS corpus (2003) in Shetland (Bressay) categorised as weans (2,347 words)

Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli
Shetland Times (2021-06-19) in Shetland categorised as weans (622 words)

Swiet Haar
Abersee Press (2017-11-12) in Shetland categorised as poetry (1,452 words)

Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca
Lallans Magazine (2001-03) in Shetland categorised as poetry (1,195 words)

Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English
Luath (2005-10-01) in Shetland categorised as poetry (7,015 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

De Luca, Christine

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