The Importance of Being Earnest

words removed
20,748
marks left
5,764
words a sentence
6.1
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: Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde. More twins

Oscar Wilde on the shelf

7 books by Oscar Wilde are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 6th closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for William Shakespeare. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Oscar Wilde's punctuation is closest to Marie Lion's.

Oscar Wilde's average fingerprint

Oscar Wilde on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookOscar Wilde's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons1.43.87.2
Commas58.670.176.6
Colons0.61.91.6
Exclamation marks11.38.12.8
Question marks13.06.23.7
Words per sentence6.116.417.0
Dialogue0%21%22%

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

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