A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Somerville, Shirley-Anne


Total words by this author in corpus - 8,417
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 1,312
Ratio of total words to unique words - 6.415
Top ten most common words - the, tae, an, o, for, a, scots, in, gaelic, thit,
Total number of punctuation marks - 625

Punctuation statistics

4 semicolons in total or 0.48 per thousand words 13 colons in total or 1.54 per thousand words 41 apostrophes in total or 4.87 per thousand words 6 quotes in total or 0.71 per thousand words 242 commas in total or 28.75 per thousand words 0 exclamation marks in total or 0.00 per thousand words 18 question marks in total or 2.14 per thousand words 301 full stops in total or 35.76 per thousand words Somerville, Shirley-Anne; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation
gov.scot (2022-08-24) in Central (Holyrood) categorised as government (8,417 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Somerville, Shirley-Anne

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