A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Bates, Gregor


Total words by this author in corpus - 1,948
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 672
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.899
Top ten most common words - i, the, and, tae, wis, a, in, ma, it, ,
Total number of punctuation marks - 317

Punctuation statistics

0 semicolons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 2 colons in total or 1.03 per thousand words 0 apostrophes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 0 quotes in total or 0.00 per thousand words 110 commas in total or 56.47 per thousand words 21 exclamation marks in total or 10.78 per thousand words 8 question marks in total or 4.11 per thousand words 160 full stops in total or 82.14 per thousand words Bates, Gregor; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

The Death Dance
Scots Hoose (2022-11-07) in Central (East Dunbartonshire) categorised as weans (1,948 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Bates, Gregor

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