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McGregor, Iain


Total words by this author in corpus - 5,323
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 1,458
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.651
Top ten most common words - a, the, an, tae, wis, it, in, ma, o, wi,
Total number of punctuation marks - 1,262

Punctuation statistics

2 semicolons in total or 0.38 per thousand words 0 colons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 149 apostrophes in total or 27.99 per thousand words 312 quotes in total or 58.61 per thousand words 327 commas in total or 61.43 per thousand words 92 exclamation marks in total or 17.28 per thousand words 78 question marks in total or 14.65 per thousand words 293 full stops in total or 55.04 per thousand words McGregor, Iain; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Lallans 77 - Farquhar
Lallans Magazine (2010-12) in Doric categorised as prose (2,156 words)

Lallans 79 - The Ratton
Lallans Magazine (2011-09-01) in Central categorised as prose (2,295 words)

Lallans 78 - Scots Teegars
Lallans Magazine (2011-07-01) in Doric categorised as prose (872 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

McGregor, Iain

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