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Tait, John M


Total words by this author in corpus - 10,756
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 2,451
Ratio of total words to unique words - 4.388
Top ten most common words - da, a, an, the, at, o, €™, in, is, -,
Total number of punctuation marks - 1,598

Punctuation statistics

35 semicolons in total or 3.25 per thousand words 25 colons in total or 2.32 per thousand words 71 apostrophes in total or 6.60 per thousand words 208 quotes in total or 19.34 per thousand words 668 commas in total or 62.10 per thousand words 9 exclamation marks in total or 0.84 per thousand words 29 question marks in total or 2.70 per thousand words 505 full stops in total or 46.95 per thousand words Tait, John M; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Lallans 60 - The Three Hooses
Lallans Magazine (2002) in Shetland categorised as weans (668 words)

Lallans 62 - Expository Scots
Lallans Magazine (2003-07) in Central categorised as prose (1,199 words)

Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2)
Lallans Magazine (2003-12) in Central categorised as prose (1,260 words)

Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75)
Lallans Magazine (2002) in Shetland categorised as poetry (660 words)

Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect
Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 (2004) in Shetland categorised as prose (4,853 words)

Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime)
Lallans Magazine (2001-03) in Shetland categorised as prose (2,011 words)

Lallans 73 - Guest
Lallans Magazine (2008-10-01) in Central categorised as poetry (105 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Tait, John M

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