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Hall, Simon W.


Total words by this author in corpus - 9,613
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 2,592
Ratio of total words to unique words - 3.709
Top ten most common words - the, a, o, tae, in, and, he, an, it, €™,
Total number of punctuation marks - 1,462

Punctuation statistics

14 semicolons in total or 1.46 per thousand words 15 colons in total or 1.56 per thousand words 43 apostrophes in total or 4.47 per thousand words 118 quotes in total or 12.28 per thousand words 569 commas in total or 59.19 per thousand words 53 exclamation marks in total or 5.51 per thousand words 77 question marks in total or 8.01 per thousand words 564 full stops in total or 58.67 per thousand words Hall, Simon W.; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Tae thee, or no tae thee?
Brisk Northerly (29-11-2020) in Orkney categorised as blog (316 words)

Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings
Brisk Northerly (28-01-2019) in Orkney categorised as blog (439 words)

Lands o Twatt
Brisk Northerly (30-09-2018) in Orkney categorised as blog (347 words)

Tame Hogmanay
Brisk Northerly (28-12-2017) in Orkney categorised as blog (434 words)

New Lambs, Owld Stone
Brisk Northerly (14-04-2017) in Orkney categorised as blog (445 words)

Bonny Isle o Sanday
Brisk Northerly (26-10-2016) in Orkney categorised as blog (464 words)

Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull
Brisk Northerly (19-11-2015) in Orkney categorised as blog (852 words)

The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan
Brisk Northerly (14-03-2015) in Orkney categorised as prose (3,839 words)

No the Six o Clock News
Bella Caledonia (2016-Mar-18) in Orkney categorised as blog (1,122 words)

Crackan the troughs
Brisk Northerly (11-02-2021) in Orkney categorised as blog (334 words)

The Orkney Gruffalo
Itchy Coo (01-01-2015) in Orkney categorised as weans (823 words)

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums
Orkney Voices (2021-11-17) in Orkney categorised as prose (198 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Hall, Simon W.

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