A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Donovan, Anne


Total words by this author in corpus - 49,005
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 5,520
Ratio of total words to unique words - 8.878
Top ten most common words - the, ', and, a, tae, it, she, wis, in, said,
Total number of punctuation marks - 12,059

Punctuation statistics

18 semicolons in total or 0.37 per thousand words 14 colons in total or 0.29 per thousand words 4446 apostrophes in total or 90.73 per thousand words 318 quotes in total or 6.49 per thousand words 2832 commas in total or 57.79 per thousand words 419 exclamation marks in total or 8.55 per thousand words 466 question marks in total or 9.51 per thousand words 3459 full stops in total or 70.58 per thousand words Donovan, Anne; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Not Scotland
Edinburgh International Book Festival (01-01-2010) in Central (Glasgow) categorised as prose (2,284 words)

Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie
Canongate (2009-03-05) in Central (Glasgow) categorised as prose (3,990 words)

Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens
Canongate (2004) in Central categorised as prose (2,672 words)

Matilda In Scots
Itchy Coo (2019) in Central categorised as weans (40,059 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Donovan, Anne

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