In Praise of Folly

words removed
44,866
marks left
6,570
words a sentence
48.0
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: Areopagitica, John Milton. More twins

Desiderius Erasmus on the shelf

2 books by Desiderius Erasmus are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Desiderius Erasmus's punctuation is closest to Philip Sidney's.

Desiderius Erasmus's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookDesiderius Erasmus's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons13.112.67.6
Commas93.092.578.1
Colons5.33.31.8
Exclamation marks0.20.72.0
Question marks3.54.82.8
Words per sentence48.041.217.7
Dialogue2%2%18%

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

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