Byways in British Archaeology

words removed
191,478
marks left
61,972
words a sentence
11.0
most used mark
,

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 Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Sigmund Freud. More twins

Walter Johnson on the shelf

It's the only book by Walter Johnson on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Walter Johnson's punctuation is closest to Robert Ezra Park's.

Robert Ezra Park's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons11.97.6
Commas132.078.1
Colons1.11.8
Exclamation marks0.12.0
Question marks0.62.8
Words per sentence11.017.7
Dialogue4%18%

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

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