The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book

words removed
182,876
marks left
44,239
words a sentence
12.7
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: A History of the Inquisition of Spain, Henry Charles Lea. More twins

Fannie Merritt Farmer on the shelf

It's the only book by Fannie Merritt Farmer on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Fannie Merritt Farmer's punctuation is closest to Henry Charles Lea's.

Henry Charles Lea'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
Semicolons8.87.6
Commas108.078.1
Colons0.51.8
Exclamation marks0.02.0
Question marks0.02.8
Words per sentence12.717.7
Dialogue0%18%

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

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