The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3)

words removed
187,181
marks left
81,297
words a sentence
6.7
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: The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book, Fannie Merritt Farmer. More twins

Strabo on the shelf

2 books by Strabo are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Strabo's punctuation is closest to Alphonse de Candolle's.

Strabo's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookStrabo's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons15.511.97.6
Commas194.5140.678.1
Colons0.71.01.8
Exclamation marks0.00.02.0
Question marks0.60.52.8
Words per sentence6.712.417.7
Dialogue2%4%18%

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

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