A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Clark, Thomas


Total words by this author in corpus - 80,333
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 8,653
Ratio of total words to unique words - 9.284
Top ten most common words - the, tae, a, an, o, and, it, in, wis, that,
Total number of punctuation marks - 18,926

Punctuation statistics

240 semicolons in total or 2.99 per thousand words 275 colons in total or 3.42 per thousand words 2710 apostrophes in total or 33.73 per thousand words 4066 quotes in total or 50.61 per thousand words 6538 commas in total or 81.39 per thousand words 663 exclamation marks in total or 8.25 per thousand words 503 question marks in total or 6.26 per thousand words 3892 full stops in total or 48.45 per thousand words Clark, Thomas; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Mindin on Willie McIlvanney
Bella Caledonia (08-12-2015) in Central (Bellshill) categorised as blog (888 words)

Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters
Bella Caledonia (27-12-2018) in Central (Bellshill) categorised as blog (1,384 words)

Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers
Bella Caledonia (05-04-2018) in Central (Bellshill) categorised as blog (738 words)

Wha's Like Us?
Bella Caledonia (28-12-2017) in Central (Bellshill) categorised as blog (2,189 words)

Yes Nae Mair
Bella Caledonia (29-06-2016) in Central (Bellshill) categorised as blog (1,041 words)

A Scots Pairlament?
Bella Caledonia (11-02-2016) in Central (Bellshill) categorised as blog (1,270 words)

Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun
Bella Caledonia (29-05-2020) in Central (Bellshill) categorised as blog (1,141 words)

Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!
Bella Caledonia (14-10-2019) in Central (Bellshill) categorised as blog (1,377 words)

Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money
The Scores (01-06-2018) in Central categorised as prose (1,323 words)

Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun
Evertype (2014-04-22) in Central categorised as prose (27,622 words)

Intae the Snaw
Gatehouse Press (02-11-2015) in Central categorised as poetry (1,715 words)

Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street
Eemis Stane (2023-01-26) in Central categorised as prose (820 words)

Animal Fairm
Luath (2023-01-06) in Central categorised as prose (5,760 words)

Diary o a Wimpy Wean
Itchy Coo (2018-09-20) in Central categorised as weans (3,878 words)

The Boggin Beginnin
Itchy Coo (2021-09-30) in Central categorised as weans (26,452 words)

Dinnae Mak Me Laugh
Scots Hoose (2021) in Central categorised as weans (165 words)

Eemis Stane 1 - Ye’re Still Here? It’s Ower. Gang Hame.
Eemis Stane (2022-05-06) in Central categorised as prose (314 words)

The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs
Itchy Coo (2020-09-24) in Central categorised as weans (2,256 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Clark, Thomas

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