Pygmalion

words removed
33,872
marks left
8,922
words a sentence
8.7
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: The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster. More twins

Bernard Shaw on the shelf

It's the only book by Bernard Shaw on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Bernard Shaw's punctuation is closest to John Webster's.

John Webster'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
Semicolons8.17.2
Commas49.676.6
Colons6.81.6
Exclamation marks7.82.8
Question marks12.03.7
Words per sentence8.717.0
Dialogue0%22%

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

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