Ann Veronica

words removed
97,667
marks left
24,560
words a sentence
12.9
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: Three Sevens, Perley Poore Sheehan. More twins

H. G. Wells on the shelf

6 books by H. G. Wells are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 6th closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Sax Rohmer. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, H. G. Wells's punctuation is closest to Guy Thorne's.

H. G. Wells's average fingerprint

H. G. Wells on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookH. G. Wells's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons3.64.17.2
Commas61.966.176.6
Colons0.70.51.6
Exclamation marks7.34.72.8
Question marks5.94.03.7
Words per sentence12.915.117.0
Dialogue36%36%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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