A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Kay, Billy


Total words by this author in corpus - 6,208
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 1,892
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.281
Top ten most common words - the, o, in, an, a, tae, that, i, wis, fae,
Total number of punctuation marks - 666

Punctuation statistics

6 semicolons in total or 0.97 per thousand words 4 colons in total or 0.64 per thousand words 69 apostrophes in total or 11.11 per thousand words 59 quotes in total or 9.50 per thousand words 276 commas in total or 44.46 per thousand words 32 exclamation marks in total or 5.15 per thousand words 6 question marks in total or 0.97 per thousand words 181 full stops in total or 29.16 per thousand words Kay, Billy; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Born In Kyle
Burnawn Books (2023-11-25) in Central (Kyle) categorised as prose (2,993 words)

Time for Reflection
archive2021.parliament.scot (2022-04-26) in Central categorised as government (497 words)

Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad
Lallans Magazine (2011-05-01) in Central categorised as prose (2,718 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Kay, Billy

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