A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Ireland, Mark


Total words by this author in corpus - 1,372
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 460
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.983
Top ten most common words - callum, i, a, his, mam, he, to, yer, ti, him,
Total number of punctuation marks - 259

Punctuation statistics

0 semicolons in total or 0.00 per thousand words 1 colons in total or 0.73 per thousand words 18 apostrophes in total or 13.12 per thousand words 84 quotes in total or 61.22 per thousand words 64 commas in total or 46.65 per thousand words 13 exclamation marks in total or 9.48 per thousand words 7 question marks in total or 5.10 per thousand words 72 full stops in total or 52.48 per thousand words Ireland, Mark; : ' " , ! ? . Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

List of articles

Wi A Facey Like Yours
Scots Hoose (2020) in Doric (Banff) categorised as prose (1,372 words)

Heatmap of punctuation

Ireland, Mark

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