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Burnett, Colin


Total words by this author in corpus - 67,407
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 7,831
Ratio of total words to unique words - 8.608
Top ten most common words - the, ah, tae, a, and, ae, ma, in, that, he,
Total number of punctuation marks - 11,455

Punctuation statistics

12 semicolons in total or 0.18 per thousand words 68 colons in total or 1.01 per thousand words 1528 apostrophes in total or 22.67 per thousand words 1938 quotes in total or 28.75 per thousand words 2310 commas in total or 34.27 per thousand words 98 exclamation marks in total or 1.45 per thousand words 701 question marks in total or 10.40 per thousand words 4756 full stops in total or 70.56 per thousand words Burnett, Colin; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Boris Johnstone
colinburnett.co.uk (22-01-2021) in Central (East Central) categorised as prose (714 words)

Cardboard Gangster - Part 1
ABCTales.com (2021-06-15) in Central categorised as prose (3,296 words)

Cardboard Gangster - Part 2
ABCTales.com (2021-06-15) in Central categorised as prose (656 words)

Death Becomes Him - Part 1
ABCTales.com (2022-06-17) in Central categorised as prose (3,069 words)

Death Becomes Him - Part 2
ABCTales.com (2022-06-17) in Central categorised as prose (2,955 words)

Death Becomes Him - Part 3
ABCTales.com (2022-06-17) in Central categorised as prose (2,948 words)

Death Becomes Him - Part 4
ABCTales.com (2022-06-17) in Central categorised as prose (3,202 words)

Death Becomes Him - Part 5
ABCTales.com (2022-06-17) in Central categorised as prose (1,903 words)

A Working Class State of Mind
Piermont (01-06-2021) in Central (East Coast) categorised as prose (48,664 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Burnett, Colin

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