Lombard Street

words removed
80,664
marks left
11,455
words a sentence
24.3
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: Psychology, William James. More twins

Walter Bagehot on the shelf

2 books by Walter Bagehot are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Walter Bagehot's punctuation is closest to Robert S. Ball's.

Walter Bagehot's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookWalter Bagehot's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.49.97.6
Commas64.062.778.1
Colons1.41.31.8
Exclamation marks0.00.12.0
Question marks1.41.22.8
Words per sentence24.324.017.7
Dialogue20%14%18%

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

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