The Gay Cockade

words removed
86,264
marks left
21,521
words a sentence
12.6
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: Ann Veronica, H. G. Wells. More twins

Temple Bailey on the shelf

It's the only book by Temple Bailey on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Temple Bailey's punctuation is closest to Alfred Ollivant's.

Alfred Ollivant'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
Semicolons2.77.2
Commas58.376.6
Colons1.11.6
Exclamation marks2.82.8
Question marks6.73.7
Words per sentence12.617.0
Dialogue31%22%

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

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