A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Douglas, Ashley


Total words by this author in corpus - 18,288
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 3,538
Ratio of total words to unique words - 5.169
Top ten most common words - the, o, and, in, tae, €™, a, is, scots, as,
Total number of punctuation marks - 2,298

Punctuation statistics

80 semicolons in total or 4.37 per thousand words 76 colons in total or 4.16 per thousand words 63 apostrophes in total or 3.44 per thousand words 102 quotes in total or 5.58 per thousand words 1155 commas in total or 63.16 per thousand words 27 exclamation marks in total or 1.48 per thousand words 29 question marks in total or 1.59 per thousand words 762 full stops in total or 41.67 per thousand words Douglas, Ashley; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Paternal genome drap-oot forders altruism in stieve populations
Wiley Online Library (2022-08-02) in Central categorised as prose (147 words)

Whae Were the Pechts
Dig It Scotland (2023-01-01) in Central categorised as prose (2,512 words)

Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots
languagereach.com (2021-12-22) in Central categorised as prose (2,332 words)

The Smeddum o Scots
languagereach.com (2021-11-22) in Central categorised as prose (2,513 words)

Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman
Scottish Poetry Library (2022-01-24) in Central categorised as prose (1,806 words)

The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49
wee-windaes.nls.uk (2021-02-01) in Central categorised as prose (2,762 words)

Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic
Translation Services 24 (2022-06-16) in Central categorised as prose (3,126 words)

Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie
Eemis Stane (2022-05-06) in Central categorised as prose (1,126 words)

The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd
Itchy Coo (2020-09-24) in Central categorised as weans (1,964 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Douglas, Ashley

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