A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McDonald, John


Total words by this author in corpus - 4,784
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 1,809
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.645
Top ten most common words - a, the, tae, ye, o, yer, in, an, oma, dar,
Total number of punctuation marks - 316

Punctuation statistics

0 semicolons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 14 colons in total or 2.93 per thousand words 155 apostrophes in total or 32.40 per thousand words 44 quotes in total or 9.20 per thousand words 56 commas in total or 11.71 per thousand words 11 exclamation marks in total or 2.30 per thousand words 19 question marks in total or 3.97 per thousand words 9 full stops in total or 1.88 per thousand words McDonald, John; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

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Heatmap of punctuation

McDonald, John

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