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Douglas, Sheila


Total words by this author in corpus - 9,237
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 2,313
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.994
Top ten most common words - the, o, a, an, tae, in, and, that, he, wis,
Total number of punctuation marks - 1,056

Punctuation statistics

10 semicolons in total or 1.08 per thousand words 13 colons in total or 1.41 per thousand words 68 apostrophes in total or 7.36 per thousand words 40 quotes in total or 4.33 per thousand words 516 commas in total or 55.86 per thousand words 28 exclamation marks in total or 3.03 per thousand words 10 question marks in total or 1.08 per thousand words 368 full stops in total or 39.84 per thousand words Douglas, Sheila; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird
Lallans Magazine (2003-07) in Central categorised as weans (1,613 words)

Lallans 62 - The Cairryin Stream o Tradeetion
Lallans Magazine (2003-07) in Central categorised as prose (930 words)

Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003
Lallans Magazine (2003-12) in Central categorised as prose (698 words)

Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys
Lallans Magazine (2001) in Central categorised as newspaper (1,502 words)

Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist
Lallans Magazine (2001-09) in Central categorised as prose (1,101 words)

Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836)
Lallans Magazine (2005-09-01) in Central categorised as prose (2,759 words)

Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk
Lallans Magazine (2001-03-01) in Central categorised as prose (634 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Douglas, Sheila

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