A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Mainland, Jim


Total words by this author in corpus - 300
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 180
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.667
Top ten most common words - a, da, an, wis, i, o, ta, he, if, in,
Total number of punctuation marks - 42

Punctuation statistics

4 semicolons in total or 13.33 per thousand words 2 colons in total or 6.67 per thousand words 1 apostrophes in total or 3.33 per thousand words 0 quotes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 20 commas in total or 66.67 per thousand words 1 exclamation marks in total or 3.33 per thousand words 0 question marks in total or 0.00 per thousand words 14 full stops in total or 46.67 per thousand words Mainland, Jim; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Performance (After Les Murray)
Shetland For Wirds (2001) in Shetland categorised as poetry (102 words)

Love (After Miroslav Holub)
Shetland For Wirds (2001) in Shetland categorised as poetry (75 words)

Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North
University of Edinburgh (2014) in Shetland categorised as poetry (123 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Mainland, Jim

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