A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Sayers, Ross


Total words by this author in corpus - 6,133
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 1,617
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.793
Top ten most common words - the, ah, a, and, tae, it, that, in, ae, ma,
Total number of punctuation marks - 1,441

Punctuation statistics

13 semicolons in total or 2.12 per thousand words 27 colons in total or 4.40 per thousand words 425 apostrophes in total or 69.30 per thousand words 59 quotes in total or 9.62 per thousand words 280 commas in total or 45.65 per thousand words 3 exclamation marks in total or 0.49 per thousand words 80 question marks in total or 13.04 per thousand words 518 full stops in total or 84.46 per thousand words Sayers, Ross; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Daisy on the Outer Line
Gob Stopper (Cranachan) (2020-11-04) in Central (Glasgow) categorised as prose (6,133 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Sayers, Ross

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