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Elphinstone Institute


Total words by this author in corpus - 1,972
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 621
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.176
Top ten most common words - an, the, o, tae, in, doric, scots, a, leid, for,
Total number of punctuation marks - 228

Punctuation statistics

43 semicolons in total or 21.81 per thousand words 11 colons in total or 5.58 per thousand words 16 apostrophes in total or 8.11 per thousand words 0 quotes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 93 commas in total or 47.16 per thousand words 0 exclamation marks in total or 0.00 per thousand words 0 question marks in total or 0.00 per thousand words 65 full stops in total or 32.96 per thousand words Elphinstone Institute; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines
Aberdeenshire Council (01-08-2017) in Doric categorised as government (1,972 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Elphinstone Institute

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